in a first-class carriage to Llanymynech, and on the
return journey the attentive guard conducted him to a similar compartment
which was devoted to his sole occupation. On arriving at Kennerly the
bailiff became conscious of the progress of an elaborate process of
shunting, followed by an entire stoppage of the train. After sitting
patiently for some minutes it occurred to him to put his head out of the
window and inquire the reason for the delay, and in carrying out the idea
he discovered that the train of which his carriage had lately formed a
part was vanishing from sight round a distant curve in the line. He lost
no time in getting out and making his way into the station, which he
found locked up, according to custom, after the passage through of the
last down train. Kennerly is a small roadside station about 12 miles
from Shrewsbury, and offers no accommodation for chance guests; and, had
it been otherwise, it was of course the first duty of the bailiff to look
after the train, of which he at that moment was supposed to be in
"possession." There being no alternative, he started on foot for
Shrewsbury, where he arrived shortly after midnight, having accomplished
a perilous passage along the line. It appeared, on inquiry, that in the
course of the shunting the coupling-chain which connected the tail coach
with the body of the train had by some means become unlinked; hence the
accident. The bailiff accepted the explanation, but on subsequent
journeys he carefully avoided the tail-coach.

_Railway News_, 1866.

A KANGAROO ATTACKING A TRAIN.

The latest marsupial freak is thus given by a thoroughly reliable
correspondent of the _Courier_ (an Australian paper):--A rather exciting
race took place between the train and a large kangaroo on Wednesday night
last. When about nine miles from Dalby a special surprised the kangaroo,
who was inside the fences. The animal ran for some distance in front,
but getting exhausted he suddenly turned to face his opponent, and jumped
savagely at the stoker on the engine, who, not being able to run, gamely
faced the "old man" with a handful of coal. The kangaroo, however, only
reached the side of the tender, when, the step striking him, he was
"knocked clean out of it" in the one round. No harm happened beyond a
bit of a scare to the stoker, as the kangaroo picked himself up quickly
and cleared the fence.

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