The Lincoln County herald., 1870-12-01
,Uhidren's Department.
THE RAILROAD.
CCoNCLUDED I


house that served for station. Gerty
had made . good 6ght to accompany
them but il was not thought best. "Cars
10 no place for girls" had lordly jack
dsclsimel, slesking down his elf locks
before the looking glass, and sioting bis
pride Of sex.
II should like to know, didn't Aunt
Jenny ssy twas just as nice as q parlor,
and didn's Aunt Jenny 60 10 the cars ?"
asked Gerty decisively.
"Now LIN ready" said Jack, rather
abruptly. but very wisely changing the
subject. q AS,a ~ ~, >-.--
"And I think there won't b. many
will look nicer" said little Trip, admir-
ingly, drawing her tiny fingers over the
velvet jacket.
snow you mind" said Jack, who
would miss the keenness Of his triumph
il his sisters should not witness it; "you
90 and sit on the rock out there, aud zee
me when 90 oy.
"Yes," said Gcrty, forgetting her mo-
mentary dissatisfaction, I'VE will"
"Aud don't you go straying away,
because they II come so fast, if you're not
there, you can't get back before they'll
all be gone, and then you won't see me-
| shall whiz by just like a fash"
"O." said Trip, II shall look just as
tight!' And so she did; for though
from their rock by the we'll they could
see miles Of the railroad in each direc
,ion, she scarcely dared turn her head.
for fear the wonderful train should fash
by, and she not see it, But sftsr half
hours waiting, . black speck appeared at
the end Of the long line; it grew bigger
and bigger; all the family came out to
SEQ il; volumes of somke rose and rolled
back wards from it; there vas . rattle
and roar and din. Gerty aud Trip
instinctively shrunk back, but it had
already passed them and there on the
platform Of the last car, stood Jack,
holding on BY the door, bowing and
smiling, and proud as Lucifer.
o, what . grand and glorious thing it
was to be boy, to ride in that wooder
full train and what a comparatively tame
and humilia,ing thing it was to be .
girl, and just sit on a rock and see him
60 byl - So ~-.s
So tie railroad was flushed, and the
grown up people found 1t was not SO bad
after all for the cars passed through a
"cut" SO deep that the engine smoke
stack hardly reached the top, and you
only knew they were there by the sound
"Aud If the we'll does not cave in," said
Trips father, I'VE shall be ss good as
new" And the we'll never did cave in
though it stood on the very edge of the
cut. The garden trotted over to the
other side of the house, and did not mind
it at all. The currants and the rasp
berries and the black berries held thoi,
own, aud some dne new peach trees more
than made good the loss Of the old ones
"Besides," said Jack, who had beer
continually prowling along the railroad
ever since the first surveyors appeared
and who doubtless knew more about il
than any Of the directors. "what do 20,
thinkP There are black berries no enc
along tho track. It's my opinion tb'
engine sows EN-" "And there ar
strange flowers that I never saw before,
added Gerty. There was also continue
running to see the swiftly passing trains
A dozen times day the sweet faru
silence Was broken 10 upon by ito roa
aud rush, and so many times wildly spe,
the little feet over the velvet turf to the
we'll, to gaze At the ever.charming sigh,
Lilo caught at the fever, and carri ed i
to extremes. "Cars I" rung through tn,
house at the approsch Of every train, au'
at the cry, out leaps Lilo, past tho vel
and down the bank, barking furiously
and tearing along beside the train till i
emerged from the cut, whom be woul'
return, wagging his tail, and looking ul
III the children's faces a. proud aud a
happy as II he had.douo some great thing
"hat be evidently meant was, "Yo,
make great talk about your swift cars
but you SEQ 1 am not afraid of them.
can keep up with them, yes, aud chas
them away" Indeed he was so on th
alert that at any time Jack had only /
say, "Csrs, Lilo !" aud away Lilo woul
!, rush pell- NELL to tho opening by th
we'll, and execute several ane bsrks an
: great leaps before he would discover tn,
Z be bad been imposed upon.