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Show airy ku&v, aryGraliamlA I fn Conner S&l2fflh DANNY AND TRAINS rnnny was sitting upon the floor, building a huge house out of blorks when tie heard truln whistle. With a Jump lie w hs up, the block) were knocked over, and he rushed n cross the room, climbed right over hie mother's Inp and was looking out of the window. Nothing In this world was ho Important Im-portant to Danny at a train. He bad been on trains three times. B.,iMin. . u.,. t(K. Three differ-uilding differ-uilding a nuo , . un.... pnt times he had taken trips with his mother and bis father. And the I.i8t two times his little ulster Elaine had gone along, too. The first time Elaine had not gone because she had not yet arrived In the world. But even though he bad been on trains, he jumped up every time he heard the whistle In the distance. Then he could see from his window the smoke curling up from the engine, en-gine, and he could hear the noise of the train. He couldn't see the train from the houne, but by going to the window he could see the smoke and he could hear It better, he felt quite sure, by being a little closer to It. , When he had traveled on trains he had gone with Ills daddy down to look at the big engine when the train was stopping any place for any length of time. Sometimes It stopped 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 stops, but Danny couldn't understand such people. peo-ple. They hud tulked to the engine driver. He was sitting up in the engine looking look-ing out of the funny little side windowor win-dowor opening. Danny wasn't quite sure what 'it should be called, and when he said to the engine driver: "Do you call that a window?" the engine driver had said: "Call It anything you like, young fel-lowv fel-lowv Yfti trou't be hurting my' feelings." feel-ings." The engine driver had told him about the lights and the signals and what trains they would pass and how 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, and Danny felt as though, with a little more help, he could almost run the train himself. In fact, the engine driver had said: "Why, you're learning In no time at all, all about it. I wouldn't be surprised sur-prised to hear you were running a train before many years are past." Danny thought it would be sooner than that. Elaine hadn't taken the least interest inter-est in trains. She had sat Inside In her mother's lap and hadn't wanted to go out at all. But then she was only a little girl. But he loved Eluine. There was that time when his mother and daddy had gone to a party, and a lady had come in to stay with them. Elaine had not liked the strange lady, and had cried when she came Into the nursery. So Danny had told the lady that he would look after Elaine, and be had promised prom-ised her just loads and loads of candy and Ice cream as , Hep Mothert soon as he got Lap some money, and be had rocked her a little so she had fallen to sleep. Still he had cried a little at seeing Elaine cry. He was very, very devoted de-voted to Elaine. Only she didn't care much for trains. That, he couldn't quite understand. He went buck to his blocks when the train had gone by, and somehow be didn't build a house this time. He started In building a freight yard in which he put his trains. That was the best idea he had hud yet. , The very, very best. |