Once, Sheikh Chilli was invited to a wedding in another town. Since there was a bus as well as a train going towards that town, Sheikh decided to go by train this time. So, he bought a ticket and boarded the train. It was his first time on a train. He loved the seats and the long gallery of the train. The train was moving at full speed. Nowhere did it stop. After some time, Sheikh wondered why the train did not stop anywhere at all! ‘Buses generally stopped several times’, he thought. He shouted for it to stop, but it didn’t. Now Sheikh started getting worried. The train crossed a number of towns and then, finally, it did stop at a station. Sheikh called out to a railway employee and asked, “What kind of a train is this? I shouted, but it did not stop!” The man told him that it was a train and not a bus, which stops whenever any passenger tells the conductor to halt the bus. Sheikh smiled, “Oh, the engine is so far away; no wonder the driver cannot hear anyone’s voice!”
The Non-Stop Train
