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And as for fish , and fishing , -- no , do n't ask him about that , for if he ever starts telling you of the chub they used to catch below the mill dam and the green bass that used to lie in the water-shadow of the rocks beside the Indian 's Island , not even the long dull evening in this club would be long enough for the telling of it . But no wonder they do n't know about the five o'clock train for Mariposa . Very few people know about it . Hundreds of them know that there is a train that goes out at five o'clock , but they mistake it . Ever so many of them think it 's just a suburban train . Lots of people that take it every day think it 's only the train to the golf grounds , but the joke is that after it passes out of the city and the suburbs and the golf grounds , it turns itself little by little into the Mariposa train , thundering and pounding towards the north with hemlock sparks pouring out into the darkness from the funnel of it . Of course you ca n't tell it just at first .