In the story "The Far and the Near" what event makes the engineer's visit to the town possible?


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Wolfe's "The Far and the Near" starts out with a description of a little town, which contains a small cottage on its outskirts.The cottage appears clean and comfortable.Every day, just after two o'clock in the afternoon, an express train passes by the house For more than twenty years, the train engineer blows his whistle, prompting a woman inside the house to come out on her porch and wave to him.Over this time the woman's little girl grows up,and she joins her mother in waving to the engineer.

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