By the Shores of Silver Lake describes a train ride to a small town located by a lake. The train jolted and lurched along the tracks as the conductor searched the platform and surrounding stubble fields with a craned neck for passengers. Travelers carried satchels and boarded the train, greeted by the conductor amid the town's bristly shanties near the depot by the silver lake.

1. By the Shores of Silver Lake

2. Conductor:
Definition: The person in
charge of a train.

3. Depot
Definition: A train or bus station.

4. Jolting
Definition: Moving in
a jerky way.

5. Lurching
Definition: moving
from side to side.

6. Platform
Definition: A raised floor

7. Satchel
Definition: small bag used to carry books or small items.

8. crane
• Definition: stretched
neck in order to see
better.

9. stubble
• Definition: the short,
stiff stalks of grain or
hay left on a field after
harvesting.

10. bristly
• Definition: covered
with stiff hairs.

11. shanties
• Definition: shacks;
poorly built houses.