title: Pressed Down and Overflowing: The Tale of an Unlikely Trail Boss
author: Alfred W. Walker
description: Pressed Down and Overflowing: The Tale of an Unlikely Trail Boss is Alfred W. Walker's third novel. He also authored Don't Play Marbles in Church and Worms That Never Die. Thirty-two of his short stories were collected and published in A Big Nickel's Worth. Walker is a retired lawyer whose literary efforts all have a Christian emphasis.
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  # The Monster
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Stephen Crane
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
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  LITTLE JIM was, for the time, engine Number 36, and he was making
  
  
  the run between Syracuse and Rochester. He was fourteen minutes behind
  
  
  time, and the throttle was wide open. In consequence, when he swung
  
  
  around the curve at the flower-bed, a wheel of his cart destroyed a
  
  
  peony. Number 36 slowed down at once and looked guiltily at his
  
  
  father, who was mowing the lawn. The doctor had his back to this
  
  
  accident, and he continued to pace slowly to and fro, pushing the
  
  
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  Jim dropped the tongue of the cart. He looked at his fathe