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Knoxville, Tennessee, looked to be all crowded streets, tall buildings and smoggy air. It was nothing like home in the Smoky Mountains. But that year of 1949 when I was seven Mama and Dad had brought all us kids to the city so Dad could take a job as a machinist at a tool and die shop.<\/p>\n

One chilly afternoon my brother, Buddy Earl, and I walked along the railroad tracks near our rented house. I carried an empty bucket that bumped against my knees as I walked. \u201cSee any coal on the ground?\u201d I called.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot yet,\u201d Buddy Earl called back. At this part of the track there was a railway crossing, and the train always slowed down here at the intersection. If we were lucky, bits of coal fell off the train and onto the ground where we could gather them up.<\/p>\n

A lot of the coal wasn\u2019t the best quality, most of it clinkers and burned-up lumps, but we needed everything we could get to keep warm.<\/p>\n

Things hadn\u2019t gone so well since we came to Knoxville. Flatlanders\u2014that\u2019s what we called the folks in the city\u2014thought we were pretty strange. They had a name for us too: hillbillies. Just last week in school I\u2019d gotten laughed at for telling the time. \u201cIt\u2019s nigh on one o\u2019clock,\u201d I\u2019d said.<\/p>\n

The other kids laughed. \u201cNigh on one o\u2019clock?\u201d they repeated. \u201cYou talk funny.\u201d I kicked some pebbles by the train tracks and frowned at the ground.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t ashamed at being a hillbilly. I loved our little house on the mountain. We grew our own food in the gardens, the stream was full of fish for catching, and the woods were full of game. Here in the city you needed money for food, and money was hard to come by.<\/p>\n

Dad had come down with pneumonia, probably because our house here was so cold. You could throw a cat through the cracks in our walls, they were so big.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrain\u2019s coming!\u201d Buddy Earl shouted. We stepped back from the tracks. The train slowed to a stop. Coal rattled down over the sides to the ground. Buddy and I dove to get it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are you boys digging in the snow?\u201d someone called from the engine cab. It was a fireman. I could tell by the soot on his face and the red bandanna around his neck. \u201cYou looking for fishing worms?\u201d He laughed.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, sir,\u201d I said. \u201cWe are finding coal that falls from the cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mighty dangerous for two youngsters to be running these tracks,\u201d he said. \u201cYou tell your daddy he ought to buy coal from now on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur daddy is on sick leave,\u201d I informed him. \u201cWe ain\u2019t got any money to buy food, much less coal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fireman stepped away from the window. Buddy and I resumed our search for coal. A second later the man came back to the window. \u201cHey!\u201d he said. \u201cYou little fellows bring that coal bucket over here. I got something for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

We brought him our bucket. The fireman filled it with good, clean coal straight from the train\u2019s own supply.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d I asked the fireman. \u201cI need it to remember you in my prayers tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

He smiled the kindest smile I\u2019d seen since coming to Knoxville. He wiped the back of his neck with his red bandanna.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just call me Jim,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Lord will know who you\u2019re talking about. Now you boys stay away from the train when it comes through day after tomorrow. I\u2019ll throw off a scoop of coal for you so you don\u2019t have to step on the tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our bucket was so full of coal it took both of us to carry it home, side by side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might actually be warm tonight!\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

Everyone was sure surprised when we bumped our way up to our house with our bucket so full.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo cinders or clinkers at all,\u201d Mama exclaimed, picking out a couple of lumps for the fireplace. \u201cWhere did you get all this coal?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur guardian angel gave it to us,\u201d I answered. I gave Buddy a wink. \u201cAnd the day after tomorrow, if we\u2019re lucky, we might see him again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mama looked at Buddy and me over her glasses. \u201cDoes this angel have a name by any chance?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust Jim,\u201d I said. \u201cHe\u2019s guardian angel for us and for the steam engine that pulls the coal cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mama shook her head and went back to fixing supper. The kitchen was already getting warmer.<\/p>\n

Two days later, as promised, Buddy and I stood back from the train as it steamed up to the crossing. Jim appeared in the window and gave us a wave. A second later a large scoop of coal flew out of the engine cab, followed by a bright red scrap of cloth.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooks like Jim lost his neck bandanna,\u201d I said, running over to pick it up. \u201cWait, there\u2019s something tied up in it.\u201d I untied the scrap of cloth and pulled it open.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, just look at that,\u201d Buddy said. \u201cTwo pieces of bubble gum!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd a dollar bill!\u201d I said, waving the money in the air. \u201cOur guardian angel must be rich!\u201d<\/p>\n

Buddy and I returned to the train tracks regularly all that winter. Three days a week, we met Jim in his engine cab. Each time we received a bucket of coal, and sometimes a treat, like penny candy or money. You can bet I never forgot to put Jim in my prayers each night.<\/p>\n

In the spring our family moved back to the mountains. I had never been so happy to see our old house and our gardens, the woods and the streams. City life was not for me.<\/p>\n

But whenever I thought about Knoxville I smiled, remembering Jim, our guardian angel. I still remember him in my prayers. I still don\u2019t know his full name, but the Lord knows exactly who I\u2019m talking about, even all these years later.<\/p>\n

For more angelic stories, subscribe to <\/em>Angels on Earth<\/strong><\/a> magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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