A Scottish Tale
Emily was in the works for a couple of days now. Ever since an incident with a small ballast truck's broken chute that caused Emily to not only to be cleaned up, but to have her boiler fixed. She felt sad and bored. So Donald, Douglas, Oliver and Toad came to see her that day to cheer her up. " Cheer up Emily." said Douglas cheerfully. " You'll be back working tomorrow." " Douggy is right Emily." said Donald. " You'll be well the first thing in the mornin." Thanks you guys." responded Emily. Then Donald spoke up. " You know." started Donald. " You remind me and Douglas of an engine the same class of yours back on our old railway, The Caledonian Railway." Emily was surprise. " Oh really. What's the engine like." She questioned. Then Douglas started spoke. " Well she's young like you, she's sometimes fussy like you..." Emily felt offended by this comment, but just ignored it. "... and she is kind like you." " That's a nice engine." she said kindly. " Also." continued Douglas. " She is the bravest engine that we ever met in our entire lives." " Hmm." thought Emily." Can you two please tell us more about this engine?" asked Emily" Yes." also asked both Oliver and Toad." Can you please tell us more." The two Scottish twins thought about it. Then they sighed sadly. " Alright then." The two engines replied sadly. " But it's gonna be a sad one." So the two engines started to tell the story.
" This is a scottish tale about the engine back on our old railway who also became a hero that day." started Donald. " It was way before me and Douggy came to this railway, before we were given new numbers, and before we officialy stayed on the Island of were younger back then and we sometimes caused trouble, but all in all, we were very useful. One day, we had a new engine that came from a different railway back in Scotland. She is the engine that we told you about. She was the same class as you, but she was painted a much more darker green then your emearld color. Her name was Lacy, but me and Douggy nickname her, " the Little Lassie," because she was very young. She would help us with the work, but she was also fussy with getting the work done so she can go on her own run and see around the many sights and sound of the Caledonian railway. But she was kind and was willing to finish the work to please her driver, fireman, and our manager so she can go look around the railway and the manager would happliy gave permisson to her and her crew to go look around when her job was down. She like the railway very much." Then the two scottish twins signed again sadly. " Then one day." Douglas continued sadly. " That faithful day come when it was raining. She was taking some passengers to another station across an old wooden bridge. The rain was causing damage to the bridge, so engines must cross the bridge with caution. So Lacy was crossing over the bridge as carefully as she can. She was looking out for the passengers' safety. Then suddenly, the bridge started to come apart. The bridge couldn't handle the weight of her and her coaches anymore, so the bridge started to collapse. Lacy's driver stopped her just bearly with her on the bridge. Her driver and fireman knew that if they reverse her back, the bridge would come apart. Then Lucy thought of a idea that would be risky. She told her driver to uncoupeld her from the coaches with the passengers inside. So her driver did what she has told him. Then Lacy slowly went forward and then she backed up really fast and bumped the coaches until they are off the bridge and back at the start of it. Then the bridge started to collapse. So as an act of heroicness, she quickly told her crew to jump out of her for safety. Her crew did just as they watch their engine fill to the waters below. No one was hurt serverly just some small injuries. But Lacy was never found again when the rescue crew came. They can only find two things; her whistle and one of her nameplates. She was young, but she was also a hero who sacrifice herself for the safety of her passengers and her crew. So we held a funeral for her to honor her. Our manager displayed her whistle in the railway museum of our railway and displayed her nameplate at the station that she got her passengers that she saved at. Me and Donald were very sad about this tragic day. Even tragic like last year when the Fat Controller recieve news that the City of Tauro's tube has failed. She was really "the Little Lassie"."
The twins finish their story. Emily was tearing up from this story. So was Oliver, Toad, their crews, and the workmen that were in the workshop. They were stricken about this sad tragic tale. A sad tragic scottish tale.