. A'Chu and other stories. , jump off, run ahead to thefreight, and count your boxes. When the conductorblows his whistle, get back to your coach. Only be sureyou have the full number of boxes at every station,and things will be safe enough. But there is no roof on the car. What if it rains? There you must take chances. If things get wet,thats your bad luck on this road, he replied rathercarelessly, we thought, just as if he had not theleast idea of how necessary those fresh cereals, cannedvegetables and milk, and dried fruits were to ourmissionaries living far away from the markets. Hedid not
. A'Chu and other stories. , jump off, run ahead to thefreight, and count your boxes. When the conductorblows his whistle, get back to your coach. Only be sureyou have the full number of boxes at every station,and things will be safe enough. But there is no roof on the car. What if it rains? There you must take chances. If things get wet,thats your bad luck on this road, he replied rathercarelessly, we thought, just as if he had not theleast idea of how necessary those fresh cereals, cannedvegetables and milk, and dried fruits were to ourmissionaries living far away from the markets. Hedid not guess how eagerly they had been lookingforward to the coming of those larger boxes, packedwith warm clothing and other winter comforts forthe workers at all the four stations. What a pity itwould be to have the new heating stove red with rustwhen it arrived! By Steamship and Rail 57 While these thoughts were passing through ourminds, the American was looking at the sky. Therewont be any rain tonight, he said, and probably. LITTLE OEPHAN A rocky island in the Yangtse River, with a nativemonastery and home of monks and priests. not for two or three days, anyway. With this as-surance he passed on. A MIXED TRAIN Next morning the mixed train of freight cars andpassenger coaches was ready to start north at eightoclock. Two or three stocky Europeans walked aboutgiving orders. These were Belgians, I understood, 58 AJChu and Other Stories for the road was owned and operated by work was done by Chinese, who appeared to beafraid ,of the puffing engine and clanking were not quite sure whether they were run-ning the train or whether the monster might not breakloose and run them. I had never seen just such a train. First camethe engine, with its cloud of black smoke. Theopen freight cars followed, and after them camethe third-class passenger cars. These were like thefreight cars, except that their walls were not sohigh. The passengers sat on the floor of the car,wit
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