" So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their child came it should be a *free* child. " It must be a free child," they said to each other. " It must not be a child standing still all its life on a street corner. Yes, if we have a child she mist be free to run across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. Yes, it must be a free child." So time passed on. Their child came. It was a railroad train, the Golden Spike Limited, the fastest long distance train in the Rootabaga Country. It ran across the prairie, to the mountains, to the sea. "