Coming to Harper on the City of New Orleans

The City of New Orleans are the name of a train what runs between Chicago and New Orleans. It comes down the entire length of Mississippi. That's the train what our young man, what I was telling about a few days ago, climbed on and come to Harper for his incarceration in the house of his great aunts. He were taken to Oxford, Mississippi by Silas, one of his grandpa's hired men, where he picked up his stuff and then he were carried about 20 miles west where he were left off at the train depot in Batesville, Mississippi to wait for the train. This were back around 1960 and I myself has been to that station for the purpose of attending a Ole Miss football game or two. They had this old porter there what would call out all the stops the train were gonna make. He had a problem in that he could only name them as a group. So if you asked him is the train stopped in Jackson, Mississippi, he would call out all the stops. But anyway this boy got on the City of New Orleans 'cause there warn't much else he could do since his grandpa called all the shots and had took his car away. It were close to dark when the train got in so he went to the club car and tried to buy some beer. They wouldn't sell him none for two reasons: he were too young and they couldn't sell no beer or nothing with alcohol while passing thru the "dry" state of Mississippi. It were illegal don't y'know.