sidetracks

Updated: June 28, 2025

So genial was the smile, so frank the salutation, that not one scowled back at him or hurled the chunk of coal that bespeaks a surly temper. Down through the maze of sidetracks whisked the little train, out upon the main line with a thin shriek of greeting, past the freight houses it was then that Sir Vagabond sat up very straight, a look of mild interest in his eyes.

George Barr McCutcheon - Truxton King: A Story of Graustark