midday
mutters Malahin . `` I could wish you were dead to get it over ! It makes me sick to look at you ! '' At midday the train stops at a big station where , according to the regulations , there was drinking water provided for cattle . Water is given to the cattle , but the bullocks will not drink it : the water is too cold ... * * * * * Two more days and nights pass , and at last in the distance in the murky fog the city comes into sight . The journey is over . The train comes to a standstill before reaching the town , near a goods ' station .