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Author:  Louis Slobodkin Copyright Date:  1967 Publisher:  Franklin Watts Pagination:  70 p.

The busman is a busy man.      He drives the bus, he opens the door when you want to get on or get off, and he closes it after you. He collects your fare, gives you change, and draws up at the bus stops so that other people can also get on or get off. He answers the questions you and the other passengers ask about the proper stops for leaving the bus so that you all can reach the places you want to. He steers the bus carefully through crowded streets in all sort of weather.      That is a great deal of work for one man to do for hours at a time. Sometimes three or four of these things have to be done at once. It is a good thing that the busman does everything so well, or there might be terrible accidents along our city streets.      There was a time, of course, when there were no big automobile buses or any other vehicles to carry people around the cities or anyplace else.      Many thousands of years ago, most of the people walked. Others rode on the backs of horses or donkeys or were carried by their servants or slaves. . . . . . . . . . . .

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