The Train From Rhodesia- SUMMARY

The stationmaster came out of his little brick station as the train arrived and came to a stop. The piccanins (black children; a very offensive term in the U.S but widely used in South Africa) and animals, dogs and chickens, ran out to the train stop trying to sell their goods to the people on the train. The dogs went and sat, quite still, under the dining car, where the train exhausted the smell of meat cooking with onion. An old man smiled, looking at the creatures he held in his hand. Look, said the young ...