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Show -ftary Graham,. jf Conner hr DANNY AND TRAINS Danny was sitting upon the floor, building a bilge house out of blocks I h fjf 0 ., .. u too. Three dmer- Building a Hugo . , , , House (',lt U,"M 1,e 1,!ld taken trips with his mother and his father. And the last two times his little sister Elaine hud gone along, too. The first time Elaine had not gone because she hud not yU arrived in 1 the world. "I Hut even though he had beeu on j trains, he jumped up every time he heard the whistle in the distance. I Then be could see from bis window , the smoke curling up from die engine, en-gine, and he could hear the noise of Ihe train. He couldn't see the train from the 1 house, but by going to the window be i could see the smoke and he could hear j It better, be felt quite sure, by being j tt little closer to It. j When be hail traveled on trains he had gone with Ids daddy down to look at the big engine when the train was stopping any place for any length of j time. Sometimes It slopped for just a moment mo-ment or two, and no one got out. Some people complained of the train and said It made so many slops, but j Danny couldn't understand such peo- j pie. : They had lalked to the engine driver. He was sitting up In the engine I.s.k- , lug out of the funny little side window win-dow or opening. D.-niiy wasn't quite sure what it should he called, and ' ul.en he said to the engine driver: "Do you call that a window;" the 1 .iine driver had said : 1 "Cull it anything you like, our.g fel- ;' j low. You won't be hurting my feel-! feel-! lugs." ; The engine driver had told him about I lie lights ami the signals ami what ! trains they would pass and Low tlip j I locals stooped along the line to pick : I up Ihe people who were only going i-hort distances. 1 The I'll: no driver had told him 1 many things, and Danny felt as ihoiigh. with n little more help, he could almost run Ihe train himself. In fact, the engine driver had said : j "Why, you're learning in no time at j all, nil about It. I wouldn't be surprised sur-prised lo bear you were running a train before many years are past." j Danny thought It would lie sooiiet ! than that. I Elaine hadn't taken the least inter-fst inter-fst In trains. She had sat Inside In I her mother's lap and hadn't wanted to ! go out at all. Itiit then she was only a little girl. Rut be loved Elaine. There was that time w hen his mother and daddy had gone to h party, and a lady had come In to stay with them. Elaine h a d not liked the strange lady. 11 n d h a d cried when s h e c a 111 e I n I o the nursery. So Danny had told the lady t hut he w o u I d look after Elaine, nnd be had promised prom-ised her just loads and loads of candy when he heard a train whistle. With a jump be w as up, the blocks were knocked over, and he rushed across the room, climbed fight over his mother's lap and was looking out of the window. Nothing in this world was so important im-portant to Danny as a train. He had been on trains three times. "i-y.-x.:.,;-.- : 7. v JJ I " "A V v's in is 1 - Ml'; ' j ; anil Ice cream us . u . . , In Her Mother! 1 soon as be go Lap. some money, ami r be had rocked her 11 little so she had fallen to sleep. Still he had cried a little al seeing Elaine cry. He was very, very devoted de-voted to Elaine. Only she didn't care much for trains. That, ho couldn't quite understand. lie went back lo his blocks when the train bad gone by, and romehow he didn't build 11 house Ibis time, lie started In building 11 freight yard In which In- put his trains. That was tint best Idea he had had yet. The ery, very best. |
