A Snow Bound Christmas - Frances Burr Cole
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A snowbound Christmas. Most of the occupants of the small room sat gazing out of the windows into the snow-filled air. There were windows enough to go around, though the room was long and narrow, and contained six or eight persons. All day they had spent together in this one room, each sitting quietly in his place. There had been but little conversation. the tall dark man with the white mustache and tired face had slept much with his head resting on his folded overcoat a boy opposite who showed sullen anger and defiance in every line of his young face had watched him and wondered how a man could sleep in the daytime The boy did not know that those long, nervous, white hands, wielding a surgeon's knife, had saved a life the day before, and the tired eyes had watched for many hours following.
An earnest, bright-faced young girl nearby had observed him too while he slept, as she eyed all her neighbors with keen interest. There was the old lady in the corner. a man with sample cases piled at his side, the shabby little woman holding a big baby, and a middle-aged man with stolid, joyless countenance who had read three newspapers through from beginning to end without a change of expression, and since then had sat staring straight before him. The girl in her active mind had tried to combine these various personages into a story, but she gave it up with a little sigh for their commonplaceness. An ill-assorted company it was. Surely they would have chosen to spend the day before Christmas together for no other reason than, as it happened, they all wished to travel over this branch road, which ran between the northern line from Little Falls and the Grand Central.
The day was nearly over, and the journey should have been, but the snow, which had been falling steadily since morning, grew heavier. The speed of the train perceptibly decreased. and the engine groaned and labored. The engineer watched apprehensively as they drew near a certain cut, narrow and deep, through the hills. It was drifted high, and meeting that soft, still, resistless opposition, the great engine slowed and stopped. The drifting snow hid the familiar landmarks, And so it happened that, just as the passengers were anxiously questioning one another as to the cause of the stop in that lonely place, Jim Case, the fireman, swinging himself off the engine, slipped over a culvert, and in the fall, of only a few feet, broke his arm with startling ease and completeness.
He was lifted back, white and fainting. and when the brisk conductor hurried into the passenger coach, he responded to the anxious queries with a brief, "'Snowed up!' And then, addressing the dark man, he said, "'I don't suppose you're a doctor, are you?' "'Yes,' said the man, with an inquiring glance. "'Does someone need me?' The conductor looked relieved. "'Now ain't that the luck,' said he. "'Surgeon, too, I guess?' The doctor nodded assent. In a few words the conductor told of the accident, amid exclamations of mingled sympathy and dismay from the listeners, and as the doctor picked up his small black bag and followed him into the forward car, the conductor continued, "'Not many of you travel on this road, but I thought that was your trade when I took your ticket.'
i gave a job to a surgeon once when i was hurt in a wreck that was a good while ago but i have never forgot the look or the feel of his hand so steady and strong and white he added with an apologetic smile here we are jim he called out cheerfully here's the doctor and the head nurse you just break your bones and we will do the rest you know
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:36
2
What scenario opens 'A Snowbound Christmas' and who are the first passengers introduced?
5:36–15:19
3
How does the narrator describe the train's delay and Jim Case's accident?
15:19–20:23
4
Who is Dr. Carlton and how does he respond to the emergency on the stalled train?
20:23–25:58