VERY NICE TO BE A RAILWAY ENGINEER.
A lady in conversation with a railway engineer observed, “It must be very nice to be a railway engineer, and be able to travel about anywhere you want to go to for nothing.”
“Yes, madam,” was the reply, “It would, as you say, be very nice to travel about for nothing, if we were not paid for it. But you see,” he remarked, “railway engineers are like the cabman’s horse. The cabman has a very thin horse. ‘Doesn’t your horse have enough to eat?’ inquired a benevolent lady passenger. ‘Oh yes, ma’am,’ replied cabby, ‘I give him lots o’ victuals to eat, only, you see, he hasn’t any time to eat ’em.’ So it is with the railway engineer; he has lots of pleasure of all kinds, only he has not any time to take it.”