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This brief comic story mocks railroad magnates' extreme miserliness. The protagonist is a railroad president so obsessed with penny-pinching that he refuses to let employees ride free—even the conductor and engineer. The joke's punchline: when his train hits a farmer's cow, the animal survives but gets carried twelve miles on the cow-catcher. Though the farmer has no grounds to sue (the cow is unharmed), the president bills him for the cow's railroad fare. The satire targets Gilded Age railroad barons known for ruthless cost-cutting and their indifference to ordinary citizens' welfare. The absurd scenario—charging a farmer for his injured cow's accidental "passage"—exaggerates this mentality to ridiculous extremes, highlighting how corporate greed prioritizes profit over basic human decency.

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