Dan, he stands by the barge, he does,
He stands and the big crane creaks, it does.
Up! into the chute,
Bang! out of the chute
Comes the coal at the coal barge dock!

Old Dan, he pulls the load, he does,
He pulls the heavy load.
Old Dan he pulls the coal, he does,
He slowly pulls the heavy coal.
The wagon thumps,
It bumps, it clumps
When old Dan pulls the load.

Old Dan, he stands by the house, he does,
And the coal rattles out behind.
Old Dan stands still by the house, he does,
He stands and the slippery coal, so it does
Goes rattlety klang!
Zippy kabang!
As it slides from the wagon behind!

Old Dan, he then leaves the house, so he does,
A-pulling the wagon behind.
Old Dan he goes trotting along, so he does,
He trots with the wagon all empty, he does.
The wagon it clatters,
The mud it all spatters
Old Dan with the wagon behind.

Old Dan, comes home to his stable, he does,
Home to his stable stall.
He finds the hay in the stable, he does,
He eats the hay from the manger, he does,
He pulls the hay,
He chews the hay,
Then he sleeps in his stable stall.

THE SUBWAY CAR

The relationship which this story aims to clarify is the social
significance of the subway car--its construction and the need it answers
to. Children have enjoyed the verse better, I think, than any other in
the book.

THE SUBWAY CAR

The surface car is a poky car,
It stops 'most every minute.
At every corner someone gets out
And someone else gets in it.
It stops for a lady, an auto, a hoss,
For any old thing that wants to cross,
This poky old, stupid old, silly old, timid old,
lumbering surface car.

[Illustration]

Up on high against the sky
The elevated train goes by.
Above it soars, above it roars
On level with the second floors
Of dirty houses, dirty stores
Who have to see, who have to hear
This noisy ugly monster near.
And as it passes hear it yell,
"I'm the deafening, deadening, thunderous, hideous,
competent, elegant el."

Under the ground like a mole in a hole,
I tear through the white tiled tunnel,
With my wire brush on the rail I rush
From station to lighted station.
Levers pull