Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-12-20
TLfE row ENGINE AND TIfE
PACIFIC EXPRESS

TIfE row ENGINE AND TIiE
PACIFIC EXPRESS.
4 ChrisIunas story for Children BY WIN
Dean HoweIIs.
Christmas eve, after the children had
hung up their stockings aud got all ready
for St Mic, they climbed up on papa's laI
To kiss him good night aud when they both
got their arms round his neck they said
they were not going to bed till he told them
Christmas story Then he saw that he
would have to mind, for they were awfully
severe with him, and always made him dc
exactly what they told him it was the
way they had brought him up. He tried
his best to get out of it for a while but at
ter they had shaken him first this side, and
then that side, and pulled him backward
aud forward till he did not know where he
was, he began to think perhaps he had bet
ter begin The first thing he said, after he
opened his eyes, and made believe he had
been asleep, or something, was, "Well.
what did | leave off at = and that made
them Just perfectly boiling, for they un
derstood his tricks, and they knew he was
trying TO pretend that he had told part of
the story already and they said he had
not left off anywhere, because he had not
commenced, and he saw it was no use. So
he commenced.
"Once there was a little pony engine that
used to play round the Fitchburg depot on
the side tracks, and sleep in among the big
locomotives in the car house
The little girl lifted her head from the
papas shoulder, where she had dropped it
is it n sad story, papa p
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nrnn,,tod ~Car house
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mo / Iii have ., bes,;n ail o,a. al, !,
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sbs couId ynrl rnpnl tha Ian, a,l mi
anrtv cars in and ONT and sbtnt tba,n MI
an ~. s;J. tracLs aud sLa 200. -, ion.
IN he rsefnl that ali the otbar an,,ines ~.
spected her and they we're very kind IN the
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III i stor;as ~ ri',Lt sftar H. ,,a,
tbe car bonsa at The and If sone n hi.
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catchar and loon rs chinns,, ~, a,,ai,,s,
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na,a "
Tba hoy lifted his head and lookad .t m.
G.,l, iii ,,'La s,,JdanI,. la La, Co., - -
nsna,s otber shonIdar Wi / JanIara
psrs she yyss ,ntting mn her In "
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ia ,,;rI HAnJ Inn', ''ar. ~. - a,,.i
IL .,I.iaJ
Nv ~ayer vou mimi 80 sail thsro ,,
tho how ..Vnn'II ha nnttin,, M, nam. liz, ha
fnrs IN tbrangb VII AMI tb s sbansed
~ caution ,be it'll non, en,ina
ting in the wav of the biz locomotives And
told it to keen close round after her and
try to do all it could To learn about shiftinp
empty cars You see. she knew how am
bilious the little pony engine was. aud how
it wasn't contented a bit TO grow up in the
pony engine business. and he tied down I,
the depot all its DAYS Once she hapuened
to tell il that if it was good and always did
what il was hid ner6aps COW catcbe,
would grow ON it some dav. and then il
would be A passenger locomotive Mamma.
have TO promise ali sorts of things and she
was almost distracted when she said that
Il don't think she ought to have deceived
il papa said the how "But it ougbt II
have known that if it was pony engine tc
begin with it never could have COW.
catcher"
It 'Ouldu [ IL - asked the girl. gently
No. they're kind of mooley
The little girl asked the papa. "What
makes pony engines moolev - for she did
not choose 70 he told nv her brother. h.
was only two YEARS older Than she was any,
way
well. it's pretty hard to say You see
when a locomotive is first batched-"
ooh are thev Matched mana ~ asked the
boy.
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""u UI ~ "aoA, now PaPa'
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the , a"i V, - asa'n ei su' t'''is ',a'
most IN o"s orf ~" tha 1S, 'n1
the Pacific express that starts ont every
afternoon at three Won know II Intended
10 apply for the Mace as soon AS its COW
catcher was crown and II was always tr,,
inc 10 attract the locomotives attention
backin, and 6IIin,, an the track alongside M
the train and once il raced il a GttIe
Mace and heat il hafore the axnress Ioco
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