The Dreamland Express by H. R. Millar

Author:H. R. Millar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications

THEY FOUND IT AT LAST IN THE PAWS OF A MOST OBJECTIONABLE-LOOKING BABOON

Then he yelled with wrath.

“The main steam - pipe’s gone!” he shouted.

“Gone? what d’you mean? Burst?”

“No!” screamed John, “gone altogether!”

As boy readers know, this is rather an important part of an engine. How it had gone no one knew, so there was nothing for it but to tramp back along the line and look for it.

All one weary day they searched, and they found it at last in the paws of a most objectionable-looking baboon.

Nats, who was so good at that sort of thing, was invited to “catch” it. But the beast showed Nats a set of teeth that any lion would be proud of, and Nats said their old steam-pipe wasn’t worth the trouble. And it was not until the bad-tempered beast got tired of it and threw it away* that the boys recovered it.

So, having patched up their bargain, they got the train under way again.

Other bad habits on the part of the engine developed with astonishing regularity. Nothing the boys could do was right. One of the driving wheels came off, and it was only after desperate efforts on the part of all the boys and girls that it was got back into place. It always did wobble.

A score of times carriages broke away and had to be fetched up by hand because the engine wasn’t made to go backwards.

Then, creeping on again, the wretched thing came to a final stop about a mile from a beautiful and restful-looking town. To make matters worse, they ran out of provisions too. Then the guard, who had shown astonishing patience hitherto, told them to hurry up.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.