Hey friends, it's Mr. Jim and welcome back to Kid Short Stories.

This week we are celebrating the launch of my first book called The Day We Saved the Light Bulb.

Make sure that you tell your parents to go check out the show notes below where that link will send you to the page where you can pre-order it.

I just need to know how many of you want your own book,

and maybe you'll even click a reward where I will sign your book. There's some pretty cool rewards

waiting for you over there that you've got to see for yourself including some

puzzles and some other surprises. Well friends are you ready to get into today's adventure?

I definitely am.

Let's go! Hey, Silas, do you want to take a turn as the engineer? asked Felix.

Yeah, I'm ready.

Why don't you grab the binoculars and head up top and keep a lookout?

Felix grabbed the binoculars and ran up top to the top of the train.

Yeah, Felix and Silas were engineers on a train. That meant they were responsible for driving and operating

the train and making sure that everything went according to plan. They had just finished dropping off a whole bunch of

packages that were in that train. They were now on their way home after a long day of

work. They were taking turns, one would drive the train, and the

other would go up to the roof of the train with binoculars, you know, looking out for any

animals that might be running over the tracks or something else and then he would blow the the horn on the train to scare off that animal so that they wouldn't get hurt.

It was a very important job

to make sure that everyone was safe while operating that train.

As Silas was operating the train and driving it forward.

They gave the train horn a big pole

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