Word: abelson
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Long on bad terms with its passengers, the Long Island speedily found itself in a first-class rumpus. Instigator was a little textile salesman named Jacob Abelson who commutes daily over the eleven miles from Jamaica to Manhattan. When the agent refused to sell him a ticket at the lowered rates, angry little Jacob Abelson got aboard without one, told the conductor who requested 34?. "According to the new ruling the fare should be. 23? But I'm willing to pay you 25?. Do you want it?" Flabbergasted, the conductor argued weakly, gave in as the other passengers began...