Not So Lonely.

A man was seen sitting on a lonely railway embankment in the west of Ireland. A passing tourist said to him, “Don't you find life very lonely?”

“Not at all, sir,” he replied.

“Well, what do you do with yourself?”

“Sure, I watch the trains go by.” “But how many trains go by each day?” “Just the wan, sir.”—From “Not so Humdrum,” by R. W. Harris (“Railway Gazette,” London).

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