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One of Bob Bailey's
self-appointed jobs was to meet the steamboat and, later, the train, upon its arrival at
Enderby. When the Reverend John Knox Wright arrived, Bailey kindly freighted the
reverend's three trunks to the Presbyterian manse at Lansdowne, following which he
promptly charged Wright seventy-five cents. When told that in Trinidad the same work and
more could be done for free, Bailey's quick response was "Well, you're not in
Trinidad now. You're in God's country. Six bits, please!"
Later, the same reverend's pulpit was freighted from Sicamous to Enderby, and was handled
by Bailey and two workers. In landing, the pulpit fell into the river.
"Holy Moses! the preacher's talking box is overboard!"
exclaimed Bob, and he was after it with pole and hooks and finally had it safely on shore.
"Hey there, Preacher," ejaculated Bob, "here it is; we've baptized it; take
the bleeding thing away before we drown it."
Okanagan Commoner, February 26th, 1925.
Yuri Cowan
ALF School 1989