United States or Peru ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
They kept along the railroad tracks, and presently came to a shanty where there was a track-walker. "How far to the nearest village?" asked our hero. "Half a mile." "Thank you." "How is it you are out here in the rain?" went on the track-walker. "We got off our train and it went off without us." "Oh, I see. Too bad."
I asked Abe about it an' Abe says he guesses Tom got the money from an aunt that jus' died." "Perhaps he did." "Well, where'd he get the aunt? Tom's got two brothers that are peddlers an' a father who's a track-walker, an' he's got a mother what takes in washin'. If there's an aunt, she's some relation to the rest of the family, so why didn't she leave them some money, as well as Tom?"
Several days later the girls read in a local paper of how the train had been stopped while two track-walkers fitted a perfect rail in place of the broken one. And something of themselves was told. For the track-walker they had met had talked of the young ladies he had met, and there was much printed speculation about them. "I'm glad we didn't give our names," said Grace.
You'll be noticin' that we have 'em here and there along the line," and he showed them where, a little distance down the track, there were a number placed in racks made of posts, so that they might not rust. From his pocket the track-walker pulled a red flag. It seemed that he carried it there for just such emergencies.
Here is a railway-train thundering along some evening toward a broken bridge, and the track-walker rushes toward it with his swinging lantern, as though he had heard the great command, "Let your light shine before men;" and the train comes to a stop and the passengers stream out and see the peril that they have just escaped, and give thanks to their Father which is in heaven.
It was like dismal twilight after the revelation of nature that had blown upon him the breath of an unknown life. In deep silence the pupils of the philosopher listened to the marvellous recital of Ctesippus. Plato broke the silence. "Let us investigate the dream and its significance," he said. "Let us investigate it," responded the others. Semyon Ivanonv was a track-walker.
News of the er accident travelled up and down the line pretty swiftly. A track-walker passed the word to us early yesterday morning just as we were starting out from the caboose for the day's work. So I had Thorlakson get a message off to you; he stuck it in a split stick and the engineer of a passing freight caught it O.K. and took it up the line to the operator at Indian Creek."
John, President of the Mercantile Bank of New York, relates the following incident: A year or two ago he was in the Shenandoah Valley with General Thomas Jordan, C.S.A., and at the close of the day they found themselves at the foot of the mountains in a wild and lonely place; there was no village, and no house, save a rough shanty for the use of the "track-walker" on the railroad.
At the same time the track-walker, with his swinging lantern, was making equally good speed in the opposite direction. As Rod rounded a curve, and sighted the lights of the waiting freight train, he heard the warning whistle of Number 8 behind him, and redoubled his exertions.
Probably he wants to get somewhere, and the track is the shortest route." "He's looking down as though searching for something," said Mollie. "Maybe he's a track-walker," suggested Amy. "No, he isn't dressed like that," asserted Betty. She turned and looked at the man. He seemed young, and had a clean-shaven face. He paid no attention to the girls, but walked on, with head bent down.
Word Of The Day