On rushed the train, past towns and villages, and houses and trains.

The sun got hotter and hotter, and the children began to get a little tired of looking out of window.

Milly asked for a story-book, and was soon very happy reading "Snow White and Rose Red." She had read it a hundred times before, but that never mattered a bit.

Olly came to sit on nurse's knee while she showed him pictures, and so the time passed away.

And now the train stopped again, and father lifted Olly on his knee to see a great church far away over the houses, and taught him to say "Lichfield Cathedral." And then came Stafford; and Milly looked out for the castle, and wondered whether the castles in her story-books looked like that, and whether princesses and fairy godmothers and giants ever lived there in old times.
After they had left Stafford, Olly began to get tired and fidgety.