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Show m Daddy's Vmy Tale yn; giai boa'ER TRAIN AND WEATHER "WIiMlirr If Is n fine day or whether It Is a r.iiny day I go on my journeys jut the same," salfl the train. "Xo.v. some croa t tires always wait to see what the weather is ;uin;j to do. "They look out of their windows iiml they say : "'Well, It will be too wet to play tennis today.' "I've even heard that they think they won't so in swimming when It rains as they fear It will he "oo eold. "I'.ut I do not bother .'iho::t the wrafhor. I pi iiIiki; just the same. "Somef imes when there are dreadfully dread-fully had storms in (he winter I have to wait until they plow snow out of my track--', hat I am ready to go ahead just as soon ns 1 can. "I do not object to the snow unless un-less it aeufally yets so In my way I cannot move. "I am above such things ns the weather, or If I am not exactly above the weather at least I go ahead right thront-'h It." liillie l'.rownle was paying a visit to the train as the train was waiting to start off early In"tho morning. It wns a day when the skies were overcast and when It did look us though it might rain any moment. l'dllie Brownie had said to the train that he knew the train would be start- Billie Brownie Was Paying a Visit I ing off right on time in spite of i-Jja way the weather looked. Iiillie TIrownie knows all langvages. Maybe he doesn't speak in nil the languages lan-guages that people can use, but he speaks the language of the (levers and of the birds, of the animals and of all sorts of things such as trains and boats and airplanes. lie knows what the boats are saying when they blow their whistles and what they mean by the various sounds they make on their river trips sed their lake trips and their ocean voyages. voy-ages. He loves trains and he loves to watch them dashing through the country. coun-try. He loves to see them at night and early In the morning and he loves great stations where many trains go In and out. He likes smaller stations, too, where a big train goes out every morning morn-ing and another comes in every evening. eve-ning. He loves them, too, where there Is just one a day, or where there Is just one a week. "Not only da you go out no matter what the weather is going to be like," he said, "but you go out on time." "You don't oversleep as people do." "Yon don't say : " 'O. is it eight o'clock I Well, maybe may-be I won't start quite so early this morning. Maybe HI wait a few minutes min-utes longer.' 1 "No, you don't decide to start at one hour when you're thinking about It the night before and (hen change your mind in the morning when starting time comes. "You are so regular and so certain. I really greatly admire you, Train." The train seemed pleased, in Its great, big way, that I'.illie Brownie complimented it so nicely,. "Of course sometimes I suppose people wish 1 didn't start at exactly the same time. "They often find It hard to get up and to "make" me, as they say." the train said. "Yet, for those who are on time It's I so much nicer that they should not be 1 kept wailing. "They may not be sure that their friends will meet them on time, they may not he sure whether their friends will not keep them waiting and waiting, wait-ing, but they will know that the train Is going to start when It Is supposed to start. "Yes. 1 do like to be punctual. "Sometimes after I get started I lose time, but when you think of the numbers of trains there are and how far we go and how much we have to do. how many stops to make, how much mall and freight and baggage we carry not to mention people I think we do pretty well. "(if course I like to be loyal ti trains '." "Of course, yon do." said lilllln r.rownle, "and I agree with you. You are very reliable, yon Train family, and you certainly don'i let weather j upset you or change your plans." |