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Show Fairy lal& Bonner )? l DANNY AND TRAINS Danny was sitting upon the floor, building a huge house out of blocks when he heard a train whistle. "ri!V With a jump he Mffi&$ was up, the blocks V J were knocked Xyyp over, and he gfmk rushed across the I Hi roomp climbed (i-iaSi flir rifc'ht over hla KrWZzxjL'ii mother's lap and &fS0 'as looking out of the window. J2ipcS Nothing in this SfuvnT world was so im-yiXyp(, im-yiXyp(, portant to Danny iSSMfe He had 1,een 00 c 1 " trains three times. Building a Huge io- Three dirter; House. ent times lle had taken trips with his mother and his father. And the last two times his little sister 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 had been on trains, lie 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 hour;e, 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 had talked to the engine driver. He was sitting up In the engine looking look-ing out of the funny little side window win-dow or opening. Danny wasn't quite sure what it should be called, and ivhen he said to the engine driver: "Do you call that a window?" the engine driver had said : "Call it anything you like, young fellow. fel-low. You won't be hurting my feelings." feel-ings." The engine driver had told him about Ibe 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 Elaine. There was that time when his mother and daddy LagEn had gone to a 'x553! I party, and a lady f ssSKgH had come In to ' iEy stay with them. Jglf Jt Elaine had not (r liked the strange 3j f 'fyjjl Jlk lady, and had A cried when she vf'iJ'cr came into the l'X nursery. So Danny fB38Bl had told the lady tluit he would ' ftM look after Elaine, TfjfsM and lie had prom-Ised prom-Ised her just loads and loads of candy ft, I '! and ice cream as , Her Mother,s soon as he got jap some money, and be had rocked her a little so she had fallen to sleep. Si ill he had cried a little at seeing Elaine cry. He was very, very de-I'oied de-I'oied to Elaine. Only she didn't care much for trains. That, he couldn't quite understand. lie went back to his blocks when the truin had gone by, and pomeliow ' he didn't build a house this lime, lie started in building a freight yard in which he put his trains. That was the best idea he bad had yet. The very, very best. |