These words, uttered shrilly in his ear, staggered his senses as he opened his eyes and looked up.
CHAPTER V.
Ralph's First Railroad Ride.
A slender, thin faced, alert looking man was stooping over the boy, and shaking him vigorously. Day had dawned.
"Wake up, young fellow!" continued the stranger, as Ralph gazed at him in a dazed sort of way. "How came you in here?"
"I—I got in out of the rain," said Ralph, staggering to his feet, only to be thrown down again by the jolting of the car, which was in rapid motion.
The sliding door was now open. Ralph glancing out, saw the landscape slipping by at a furious rate of speed.
The sight so astonished him, that he sank back again. To his unaccustomed senses it was as if the earth were turning upside down.
"What's the matter with you? Drunk?"