Some ragged little boys from the depot sold pop and iced lemonade under a white umbrella at the corner, and made faces at the spruce youngsters who came to dance.
At last there was something to do in those long, empty summer evenings, when the married people sat like images on their front porches, and the boys and girls tramped and tramped the board sidewalks-- northward to the edge of the open prairie, south to the depot, then back again to the post-office, the ice-cream parlour, the butcher shop.
When the train glided into the
depot he was on his feet and ready to leave it.
What excellent order they kept about that vast
depot! There was no frantic crowding and jostling, no shouting and swearing, and no swaggering intrusion of services by rowdy hackmen.
"You tell him to come down by the
depot. I got to see him and I'm going away on the local.
The day after the letter arrived in New Orleans, Susan and Emmeline were attached, and sent to the
depot to await a general auction on the following morning; and as they glimmer faintly upon us in the moonlight which steals through the grated window, we may listen to their conversation.
Gold is already coming down, nuggets of it, and he is opening a
depot to buy all the mahogany and ivory in the country.
This had given him a glimpse of a profitable future, in which his village would serve as the one
depot on the underground railway between Berande and Malaita.
Its wires are waiting at the dock and the
depot, so that a tourist may sit in his stateroom and talk with a friend in some distant office.
The decision to assign the maintenance of roads between Tutume and Maitengwe and its feeder roads to Changete and Dagwi to the Nata maintenance
depot was based on the desire to balance work load with the resources available in both Francistown and Nata
depots.
BRTC Chairman Farid Ahmed Bhuiyan said BRTC will start selling advance tickets from May 20 for Eid holidaymakers from different
depots, including Motijheel, Joarsahara, Kalayanpur, Gabtoli, Mohammadpur, Mirpur, Jatrabari, Gazipur and Narayanganj.
