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The engine had already whistled in the distance A few instants

later the platfor

low in the air froine rolled up, with the

lever of theup and down, and

the stooping figure of the engine-driver covered with frost

Behind the tender, setting the platfore van with a dog whining in it At last

the passenger carriages rolled in, oscillating before co to a

standstill

A s a whistle, and after hiet down: an officer of

the guards, holding hi severely about

hiaily; a

peasant with a sack over his shoulder