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1ChrisJones711
Hello, my father recalls a franklin library book from the 1970’s, possibly 80’s.
It contained a short story:
An train engineer operates the same route for years and years. On his route, he always sees the same lady in her yard hanging laundry or gardening and waves to her.
The train engineer retires and decides he wants to meet this lady up close that he’s seen countless times from the train. He approaches her at her home and she turns out to be a small minded, mean individual.
Any idea who the author is or what the book is called?
Thank you,
Chris Jones
Toronto, Canada
It contained a short story:
An train engineer operates the same route for years and years. On his route, he always sees the same lady in her yard hanging laundry or gardening and waves to her.
The train engineer retires and decides he wants to meet this lady up close that he’s seen countless times from the train. He approaches her at her home and she turns out to be a small minded, mean individual.
Any idea who the author is or what the book is called?
Thank you,
Chris Jones
Toronto, Canada
2jroger1
Might it have been “The Far and the Near” by Thomas Wolfe”?
http://sittingbee.com/the-far-and-the-near-thomas-wolfe/
Franklin published a Wolfe volume in the “Collected Stories of the World’s Greatest Writers” series, but I don’t know if “The Far and the Near” is in it.
http://sittingbee.com/the-far-and-the-near-thomas-wolfe/
Franklin published a Wolfe volume in the “Collected Stories of the World’s Greatest Writers” series, but I don’t know if “The Far and the Near” is in it.
