Impudently cool as the darkey was, he must yield the palm for effrontery to the Erie Railway guard, whose interview with Manager Fisk is thus related in an American paper.
'You are a conductor on the Erie, I believe?'
'Yes, sir.'
'How long have you been on the road?'
'Fifteen years.'
'Worth some property, I learn?'
'Some.'
'Have a very fine house in Oswego? Cost you some thirty, forty, or fifty thousand dollars?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Some little money invested in bonds, I am told?'