Clodhopper Girl A Railroad Builder Ends Season
The Clodhopper Girl joins a railroad camp with her parents as builders wrap up a season. She battles bread secrets, aiding hungry tellers, learns from a tramp, and helps recover revelers after a drunken spill. Christmas dinner arrives with help from a deserted wife.
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In dusk and rain the narrator and family join rough-spirited road crews in a makeshift cook camp. They salvage a stove, cook tea and ham, thaw out amid smoke and mud, and endure stern boss Mike Terrell as they set up bunk beds and skylights. Payday looms as Terrell hints this season ends.
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