station-goers

Updated: May 7, 2025

At Wetzlar, one of the stations near Giessen, a kind-faced old German came to the window and talked to us in splendid English. "I would like to give you something, boys," he said, "but" he shrugged his shoulders "you know I daren't." The guard pretended not to hear a word, and at that moment was waving his hand to a group of girls just the regular station-goers, who meet the trains in Canada.

Nellie L. McClung - Three Times and Out