. St. Nicholas [serial]. ) {Silver Badge) I HAD always lived in a little Missourian town, so I wasvery much excited as at six oclock one evening I steppedgingerly up on the platform of the Los Angeles Lim-ited. A black porter with brass buttons all down hiscoat of spotless white showed us to our section. We had just got settled when a colored waiter stoodat the door and called, First call fob dinnah, overand over. We went into the dining-car and ate and ate. Thetrain joggled so that Bud spilled soup all over himself!We had all sorts of good pickles, and olives, and cake. Then we went back to o
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ) {Silver Badge) I HAD always lived in a little Missourian town, so I wasvery much excited as at six oclock one evening I steppedgingerly up on the platform of the Los Angeles Lim-ited. A black porter with brass buttons all down hiscoat of spotless white showed us to our section. We had just got settled when a colored waiter stoodat the door and called, First call fob dinnah, overand over. We went into the dining-car and ate and ate. Thetrain joggled so that Bud spilled soup all over himself!We had all sorts of good pickles, and olives, and cake. Then we went back to our car, but I hardly knew it!Some of the seats were just as we had left them, butcurtains hung before some of them, and through thecracks you could get glimpses of beds all made up withwhite sheets and blankets. It was nt late, but Papa called the porter, and, as Ilive, he took a key from his pocket and pulled down abig piece from the wall. Then he pulled the plush seatsapart, and put sheets and blankets on both of them!. A TRAVEL PICTURE. B\ WALTER , ACE I5. (HONOR MEMBER.) 474 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE [Mar., Mother put Bud to bed, but I went out to the observa-tion-car and looked out of the window a while. Finally, I went back to bed. Behind the curtains Idiscovered a little brass thing that would pull out, andthere was a cunning little electric light! It shone right down on the little horsehair ringEdith had given me a few hours before, and, as I lookedat it, a little lump almost came to my throat; but Ilooked out of the window at the pretty moon that hadalways looked through the window at me in my littlebed at home, so I felt happy again. So I nestled downand thought about all the pleasant evenings I have hadin my life—Ediths party, the moonlight picnic, andever so many others, but I decided that none of themhad I enjoyed more than this first evening on the train. AN EVENING I HAVE ENJOYED BY ELSBETH MC GOODWIN (aGE 14) (Silver Badge)Yes m, it shore was de finest wedd
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