Some good and some sad_stories are related in "Tales of the Trains, published by the Southern Railway, and containing much that is of interest to the travelling public.
There is, for instance, the story of Heartbreak Hill—this is admitted not to be the name of the station, but it serves.
There were two letters from the Heartbreak Hill district. The frst complained indignantly of the "daily congestion" in first-class carriages om Heartbreak Hill to Cannon-street, which had grown' to be." Positive scandal." The second desired to draw the attention of the company to the "scandalous daily surplus of empty, first-class; carriages" from Heartbreak Hill Cannon-street, while passengers in the third-class compartments were compelled to stand in great dis-
There is the story of the lady who, her umbrella. having! blown inside out on a windy day, flung it on the line. The framework came in contact with alive line, and the result was a "short," which hung up all the trains in the vicinity of 10 minutes, It is related that railway property disappears "with a rapidity that Shing." On a certain suburban fine was found hanging a bedspread composed entirely of the little white antimacassars from first-class carriages.
The story-teller declares that he is ly, however, towards the gentleman (this often hoppo: who writes to the company enclosing, antimacassar, with profuse'
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.