strange language from where they belong," said one passenger waiting for a train.
"They have secrets to keep among each other, and never tell us," said another passenger.
"We will find out all about it reading the newspapers upside down to-morrow morning/: said a third passenger.
Then the blue foxes and the yellow flongboos pattered pitty-pat, pitty-pat, each with feet and toenails, ears and hair, everything except tails, pattered scritch scratch over the stone floors out into the train shed. They climbed into a special smoking car hooked on ahead of the engine.
"This car hooked on ahead of the engine was put on special for us so we will always be ahead and we will get there before the train does," said the chairman to the committee.
The train ran out of the train shed. It kept on the tracks and never left the rails. It came
