THE TRAIN’S SEX.
“ Yonder she comes !” said a tall lank man who was sitting on a. trunk in the shade of the booking-office. “ Yonder comes who r*” asked a fat, good-natured man who sat near him “ The train we’ve been waiting for nearly half-an-hour,” said the first speaker. “Why do you say ‘yonder she comes ?’ ” asked the other. “ Well, that is the customary way of speaking of a train, isn’t it ? And custom is what fixes things. Everybody says ‘ yonder she comes,’ in speaking of a train’s approach.” “Well, I insist you should have said ‘ yonder he comes,’ said the fat man. Well, I’ll agree to leave it to the station-master and see if it wouldn’t have been better for you to have said ‘yonder he comes,” k added the fat man. “Both agreed to it,and when they found the station agent the fat man asked: “ What is the sex of the train just drawing near to the station ?” “ It’s a mail train,” answered he. And the lean man went out and bought a good cigar for the fat man.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 49, 3 March 1894, Page 10
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180THE TRAIN’S SEX. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 49, 3 March 1894, Page 10
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