The Adventures of Toad (25)

The Adventures of Toad (25)

  Of course, he had never washed a shirt in his life, and couldn't if he tried ; but he thought : " When I get home and have money again, I will send the engine-driver enough to oay for quite a quantity of washing. "

  The guard waved his flag, and the train moved out of the station.

  Toad began to skip up and down and shout and sing, to the great astonishment of the engine-driver, who had come across washerwoman before, but never one at all like this.

  They had covered many a mile, and Toad was considering what he would have for supper as soon as he got home, when the engine-driver, with a puzzled expression on his face, said : " It's very strange, we're the last train running in this direction to-night, yet I could be sworn that I heard another following us ! "

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