When the official arrived, he found children everywhere he looked. This was so unusual the Government sent someone out to the town to investigate the cause for the high birth rate. One version of the myth, as written down by the Australian author and folklorist Bill Scott in The Long & The Short & The Tall: a collection of Australian yarns tells the story of a little town on the coast, not too far north of Sydney, where the birth rate was three times the average for all the rest of Australia. Since it was too late to go back to sleep and too early to get up, couples would have sex. This was allegedly caused by a freight train passing through the town and blowing its whistle, waking up all the residents. According to the legend, a certain small town had an unusually high birth rate. The legend first appeared in Christopher Morley's 1939 novel Kitty Foyle. The Baby Train, or simply Baby Train, is an urban legend told in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. For the movement of orphans to the west in the late 19th century, see Orphan Train.
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