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Updated: May 19, 2025
After one hour of blocks and choo-choo cars, I am perfectly prostrated. I have been cheated out of the joys of motherhood, that is the truth the spring was poisoned for me at the very beginning. "You must not mind my lamentations, dear Delia," she wrote in another letter. "You can't imagine how lonely my life is no, for it is different when you are here. Oh, I am so weary! so weary!
"I want to be a brakeman, And with the brakemen stay, I'd ride upon the choo-choo cars Through all the livelong day," he warbled, rocking backward and forward in time to his song. "Why don't you go down to the railroad yard and put in your application, then?" was Reddy's stolid advice. "If I intended to be a brakeman I wouldn't study law." "Alas!
"As president of a life insurance company I could not vote myself a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year salary, and take it from fatherless children and widows and retain my self respect. Out here in the mountains I can occasionally take my boys, when our funds get low, and ride away to a railroad, and hold up the choo-choo cars, and take toll, but not of the poor passengers. Who do we rob?
I'll tell you what one is going to do one is going to take to one's o'sullivans, beat it rapidly to a choo-choo, and float into Uncle Gilbert's presence with a business of being tickled to death that's what one is going to do. You know Nature has a few immutable laws, and one is that even a rich old uncle must in the full course of time pass on and leave nephews and nieces. Leave them what?
His Peruvian friend he could not find, but he looked up the Chinese trader that he'd first seen him with and who had a shop on the corner between Martin Jackson's and the faro joint. "The Chinaman could tell him. Señor Roca had taken the choo-choo back to Callao si, si Oh, yes, for Lima. "Cogan asked for the name and address and got it. 'Señor Luis Roca, he repeated.
Don't you think you'd arrive earlier at the end of your run if your choo-choo got to puffing?" "You'll have to get off, sir." "I hate to disoblige," murmured the owner of the jingling spurs, the dusty corduroys, and the big, gray hat, putting his feet leisurely on the cushion in front of him. "But doesn't it occur to you that you are a man of one idea?" "This is the Coast Limited.
Then while Sammie looked on, his eyes getting bigger and bigger and his breath coming faster and faster, until it was like a locomotive or a choo-choo, whatever you call them, going up hill, if that little green man didn't wave his hands over that puddle of water, where Sammie's ball had fallen.
"Well, Jack," he said to his son, when they had been left in sole possession of the Jarley mansion, "you and I must entertain each other this afternoon. What shall we do?" "I'd like to play choo-choo car with you," said Jack. "I'll be the engine and you be the train." "Very well," said Jarley. "Have you got your steam up?" "Yeth," lisped Jack. "All aboard!"
When the alarm clock went to work the next morning Clara J. turned around and gave it a look that made its teeth chatter. She had been up and doing an hour before that clock grew nervous enough to crow. Her enthusiasm was so great that she was a Busy-Lizzie long before 7 o'clock and we were not booked to leave the Choo-Choo House till 10:30.
"A tourist?" I echoed, with perfect incredulity. "That's whut I am, m' friend," he returned firmly. "You don't have to have a red dope-book in one hand and a thoid-class choo-choo ticket in the other to be a tourist, do you?" "But if you will pardon me," I said, "where did you get the notion that Les Trois Pigeons is one of the regular sights?" "Ain't it in all the books?"
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