Show ea 0 bonner DANNY AND TRAINS danny was sitting the floor building a huge house out cut of blocks when lie ho heard a 6 train whistle with a jump he wits was up lip tile blocks block a were knock knocked knuckell ell over und and ht h rushed across the ho room ell climbed abed right 0 over v e r ht hla mothers lap and wits looking out of the window nothing in this world will so in important por trint to danny is HB a train lie ho had been on trains three too three differ building a huge ont ent times lio lie had house taken trips with tits his mother and his fattier father and 0 alio 0 I 1 last two limes tits his little sister lind had gone along too 00 tile tho first tinie time elaine lind bad not gone because sho had biad not yet arrived in the world hut but oven even though lieg im had been on trains lie ha jumped up tip every tillie ho heard the whistle in the thery then lio lie could see bee from tits his window the smoke curling up tip from tile alio engine and ho he could hear the dolse of the iraln lie he see tile train from the house lioi ine but by going to the window lie he could see tile the smoke and lie he could hear it better lie he felt quite sure by being a little closer to it when lie had traveled on trains he alad gone with tits hla daddy down to look fit at thebie the big engine NN alion lien the traill was stopping any place for tiny length of time sometimes it stopped for just fx ft moment or two and no ono got out some people complained of tho train and said it made so ninny stops but danny understand such euch poo peo pi pie L they had talked to the engine driver he was sitting up in the engine looking out of the funny little side win aln low dow or opening danny quite sure what it should bo be called and alien lie said to the engine driver i do you call that a window the engine driver had said call it anything you like young fellow low you wont bo be hurting my feelings the engine driver had told him about the lights and the signals and what trains they would pass and how tile the locals stopped along the line to pick up the people who were only going short distances the engine driver had told him many things lings ti and danny felt as ti though lough with a little more help ho he could almost run the train himself in fact the engline driver had said why youre learning in no time at all all about it I 1 be surprised to hear you were running a train before many years are anre pnat past danny thought it would be sooner than that elaine taken the least interest in trains she had sat inside in her mothers lap and wanted to go out at all but then she was only a little girl but lie he loved elaine there was that time when his mother and daddy had gone to a party and a lady had had come in to stay with them elaine h had a d not liked the strange lady and had cried when s she he came en me into the nursery so danny had told the lady that lie he would loo after elaine Pl alne and he had promised tier her just loads and loads of candy A and tee ice cream as in her mothers mother soon boon as he got lap olne money and tie lie had rocked her a little so she had fallen to sleep still lie he had cried a little tit nt seeing elaine cry he was very very devoted to elaine only she care much for or trains that he quite understand I 1 lie he went back to his blocks when the iraln had gone by and somehow he dlan it build a house bouse this time ile he started in building a freight yard in which lie put his trains that was the best idea hc h had had yet the very very best |