Manny no sooner finished eating his clam chowder when the whistle blew, and he felt like an earthquake hit.
“Hey, Hal, slow this train down! I’m getting sick, but I think I can jump down, and make it outside if you just slow down!”
Manny slid off the table in a heap, and crawled to the opening at the end of the caboose.
“I’m outside, Manny. I’m not driving!” Hal answered
“Who’s driving this thing? Did we get rear ended? It’s a little better out here. At least the air is fresher.”
Hal yelled in from outside over the bump, bump, bump of the train thumping down the track. “Maybe your mother is driving. She has a lead foot.” Hal said.
“What are these holes in the floor? I smell smoke, dust, and cows. Maybe we ran over a cow. I’ll drive.”
Manny thought he took control of the situation. Little did he know what drove the train.
“There is a serious crisis up here at the station, Manny. You need to get out and hide!” Hal shouted.
Manny couldn’t imagine what Hal saw that made him shout, but he hopped off before the train stopped and ran over to the Post Office to hide. Soon he was swept off his feet and onto another train.
“Whee, whee, whee.” Manny was gone. But soon the mail sacks opened and workers began sorting the mail.
The workers were busy talking, and soon went off to another area to take a break. Hal rescued Manny, and they went to find the next train departing.
This big machine let out a welcoming burp. Manny stopped to swing a minute before crawling inside.
“This is fun, Hal. You should try it.”
“Just get inside quickly, Manny. You never know when your luck will run out! You may be working on a chain gang, if you don’t get off there.” Hal threw Manny inside an engine just as the guards walked by.
“You need to move on, Sir. There’s a dangerous fugitive loose in these parts.”
“I’d better get on my way then.” Hal answered.
Manny scrambled into the seat next to the engineer. “What’s this knob?”
“The brake.”
“What do these numbers mean?”
“You ask too many questions, Bear. You look kind of familiar. Haven’t I seen your face somewhere?”
Manny jumped onto another train as it passed by, and waved good-bye. “I just got here from California. I don’t know how you could know my face. I must look like some other bear you know.”
Manny, I’ve looked all over for you. What have you been doing all this time?
“Nothing, Mom. Just prowling around with Hal at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.”
Manny's Adventures 
That is a really exciting story Manny, especially when you were almost mailed to Spain again. Happy Easter to everybody. Love Fanny, Stanley and Ralph xxxx ❤
Happy Easter to all of you, Uncle Ralph, Fanny and Stanley. I’m glad you liked my story. We had lots of fun. Hal has tons of stuffeds, too. Wait till you see the party he held for me. It reminded me of the fun parties we had at your house! 🙂 xxx
Manny, Manny, Manny – You sure are adventurous! 🙂
I ran around like crazy that day, believe me Rosy. The amazing thing was that Hal kept up with me, and he’s 89! 🙂 Good thing to have a cousin so full of life at such an old age. I want to grow up just like him! 🙂
Well – I hope to have all that energy at 89 too!
Awesome that you have such a wonderful cousin to hang out with you.
We had lots of fun, Rosy. Someday I want to come visit you.
Oh – that would be great!
Yeah!
Manny I think you have been leading Hal up the garden path!
Mrs. ET., there was no garden on the railroad. Lots of working going on, but no one was pushing up daisies when I looked! 🙂
Maybe up the train tracks then…
You should see who was up the tracks. I’ll have to do another story. 🙂
I’m looking forward to it.
This looked like super fun, Bet you loved it!
Hi Ute, I would have liked it better if you had been there to save me. I miss dancing with you. You are so beautiful and wonderful. No wonder all the stuffeds love you. 🙂
You are too kind, Manny. One day we’ll dance together again!
In fact I need to practice for my next exam…… 🙂
Wow. Mom takes lessons now. She doesn’t have any tests.
Well going for Gold….:-)
You get gold when you dance? Cool. There is a couple where Mom dances that must take tests, too. Mom used to take tests in roller skating dance. She had a gold bar.
Wow Rollerskating dance. Super!
Well if I pass I will get gold- a certificate, in freestyle that is next week, and on tap I am on Gold bar 2 now. That will be in June!
Dancing is great !
So awesome! Mom and I are both impressed! She said she took tap lessons in third grade. I wonder how long ago that was. hehehe! She finally got Dad to agree to take some lessons. 🙂
Great!