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The Marshall leers menacingly at our cohort and quietly, but sternly says:
What is your business on this here train son??????
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Well, I'm the, uhh, the, uh, conductor. That's it, I'm the conductor on this here train mister marshal. You got a ticket there sir? I'm collecting tickets, TICKETS PLEASE, EVERYONE, TICKETS PLEASE, HAVE YOUR TICKETS READY. Whatdoyou got to say about that mister marshal sir, you got a ticket to ride this here train, huh?
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He produces a train ticket.
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Then, what a PUNCH!!! Was it the ticket that got it? Or.....
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the marshal? The ticket has a nicely centered hole in it.
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And our hero has a nicely centered hole in him as well as the smoke curls off the barrel of the marshall's gun. As he lays in a pool of blood a logger carrying a
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pitcher of cold water, proceeds to
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toss it on our hero and ...
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...they realize that he's got one of the first bulletproof vests and that wasn't blood, the bullet actually hit the Bloody Mary cocktail that he bought in the club car. "Now Marshal", he said, "this here ticket is...
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a ticket to the 1903 World Series... Now I may be a Bean Town fan, but i sure as heck can't accept no baseball ticket as passage on this here rail line.. You'll have to come up with somethin' better and don't go shootin' at me again or I'll have to....
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toss you out on your ear!
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or, better yet, toss you into ........
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..."Hold on there boy"...says the Marshall..."Ahm the U.S. Marshall here, and the only tossing you gonna do, is your cookies...Ah can stop this whole train here and now if I hafta...So"....
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and with those words our hero jumps from the train and lands right in a big pile of
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manure! What a smelly mess this is!
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