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Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch by Howard R. (Howard Roger) Garis
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Then there was much puffing and whistling of the engine. The
Curlytops, looking out of the window again, saw more men hurrying
here and there with flaring torches which flickered and smoked. These
were the trainmen helping to get the engine back on the rails, which
they did by using iron wedges or "jumpers," much as a trolley car in
your city streets is put back on the rails once it slips off.

At last there was another "bunk" to the train, as Teddy called it.
At this several women screamed.

"It's all right," said Daddy Martin. "They've got the engine back on
the rails and it has just backed up to couple on, or fasten itself,
to the cars again. Now we'll go forward again."

And they did--in a little while. It did not take the Curlytops or
Trouble long to fall asleep once more, but some of the older people
were kept awake until morning, they said afterward. They were afraid
of another collision.

But none came, and though the train was a little late the accident
really did not amount to much, though it might have been a bad one
had the freight car been a little farther over on the track so the
engine had run squarely into it.

All the next day and night the Curlytops traveled in the train, and
though Jan and Ted liked to look out of the windows, they grew tired
of this after a while and began to ask:

"When shall we be at Uncle Frank's ranch?"
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