no The King of the Thundering Herd 



see you. When I wrote your father that if 

 you would meet me here I would take you 

 in the cab nearly across the state of Kansas, 

 I was not at all sure that you would come, 

 but I am glad enough to see you. How are 

 your folks ? Like the West, and roughing 

 it, do they ? " 



So the engineer visited as he finished 

 making the locomotive ready for another 

 lap of the long run, while our friend, 

 Bennie Anderson, for it was none other, 

 watched him with wide-open eyes. 



It was a great stroke of good luck by 

 which he was to get this long ride in the cab 

 with the engineer upon this eventful trip. 



The engineer and his father had been 

 great friends way back in Indiana, and the 

 engineer had remembered that the Ander- 

 sons had settled in Kansas about a hundred 

 miles from the Union Pacific tracks, so he 

 had sent the invitation to Bennie to make 

 a trip with him in the cab. 



