Sundayschool stories Author:Edward Everett Hale Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: First Sunday in February. " If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear." TTAEEY had never been at Ganister before; and " as he and his father jumped down f... more »rom the train, he did not like the looks of it very much. There was only a little shed for a station. Then there was the signal-tower, and beyond that two houses. That was all he could see. One of these houses was quite small and had no windows. It was close to the track, and Harry knew that it was to keep the trackmen's tools and the hand-car in. The other house was painted gray, and had smoke coming out of the chimney. Harry was going to ask his father if that was where they were to live, when a tall man hurried out with a trunk on his shoulder. He ran through the snow to Harry's father, and thrust a large key into his hand. "Here's the key, Fetrow," he said. "Sorry I can't stay to help you get settled, but I must report at Sackville to-night." Then he ran along to the baggage-car, and threw his trunk in at the door just as the train started. As he jumped on the platform of the car, he waved his hand back at them. The train puffed along the embankment,turned into a cutting, and was lost to sight; but Harry heard the whistle twice after it was out of sight. Harry and his father were the only people who had got out of the cars at Ganister, but there were six or eight men who had come up to meet them. Harry's father, Mr. Fetrow, had just been made foreman of that part of the railroad, and the old foreman, whom they had met coming out of his house, had been ordered away. It was quite a promotion for Fetrow. He had been only a common track-hand; but now he had been promoted to be foreman at Ganister, and he had come up with his little son and most of the trunks and boxes. They were going to settle as well as they ...« less