Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 21, 2025
Across a field, cutting its way through a farmyard, a light railway carried its occasional wobbling, narrow-gauged traffic; and outside half-a-dozen huts soldiers were lolling in the warmth of early afternoon, polishing accoutrements and exchanging the lazy philosophy of men resting after herculean tasks. Elsewhere there was no sign of war.
And in that fight to defeat the narrow-gauged railroad, the people of Garrison County learned something of Barclay as well.
But unless Jolly Roger gave him a signal, or he was hungry, he would pass a snowshoe unconcernedly. This phase of Peter's development interested Jolly Roger greatly. The outlaw's philosophy had not been punctured by the egotistical "I am the only reasoning being" arguments of narrow-gauged nature scientists.
It was that lawsuit which brought him to the attention of the legal department of the Fifth Parallel Railroad Company, and his employment by that company to defeat the bonds of its narrow-gauged competitor, that was seeking entrance into Garrison County, was the beginning of his career.
A day after that, then the puffing, snorting, narrow-gauged train took him again through Clear Creek cañon and back to Ohadi. The station was strangely deserted. None of the usual loungers were there. None of the loiterers who, watch in hand, awaited the arrival and departure of the puffing train as though it were a matter of personal concern.
John Barclay does not envy Watts McHurdie not at all; for Barclay, with all his faults, is not narrow-gauged; he does not wish they would call for him not to-day not at all; he could not face them now, even if they cheered him.
Their course brought them to a cabin at the western outskirts of the city, where they paused long enough to adjust something beneath the brims of their hats. Past them ran the iron rails of the narrow-gauged road which led out across the quaking tundra to the mountains and the mines.
But unless Jolly Roger gave him a signal, or he was hungry, he would pass a snowshoe unconcernedly. This phase of Peter's development interested Jolly Roger greatly. The outlaw's philosophy had not been punctured by the egotistical "I am the only reasoning being" arguments of narrow-gauged nature scientists.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking