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Updated: June 19, 2025
When we left San Francisco, Norcum was residing in the baggage-room at the Occidental, under special care of the porters, who employed a great deal of muscle in teaching him that silence was a golden virtue. The Kamchadale dogs are of the same breed as those used by the Esquimaux, but are said to possess more strength and endurance.
"I'm all kinds of a fool," he muttered, as he raced around the baggage-room and then back to where he had left the two ladies. Mr. Guggenslocker had joined them and they were preparing to depart. Miss Guggenslocker's face expressed pleasure at seeing him. "We thought you would never return, so long were you gone," she cried, gaily. He had been gone just two minutes by the watch!
The express agent, in the baggage-room, was going over his last week's waybills and accounts by the light of a lantern, trying to locate an error, and sighing profanely to himself as he failed to find it. A wooden trunk tied with rope, a couple of dingy canvas bags, a long box marked "Fresh Fish!
Father Roland stood beside him. "Dear Father in Heaven, but it was a terrible blow, David!" cried the Little Missioner, his face dancing in the flare of the baggage-room lamps. "It was a tremendous blow straight out from his shoulders like a battering ram, and hard as rock! It put him to sleep like a baby. Did you see it?" "I didn't," said David, staring at the other in amazement.
When he had satisfied his hunger, the traveller returned to the depot, and, lying comfortably in the shade of a baggage truck, indulged in a siesta, a sleep so light this time, however, that the rolling back of the baggage-room door shattered it. Sitting up, Elsmere watched the baggage-man get a tin trunk and a canvas telescope ready for shipping.
The white boy retreated under the impression of a well-deserved, though kind, rebuke. He did not call the old man "nigger," nor in any way insult him. But here is an incident of a different kind. Standing to talk with a man who had charge of my baggage, in the passage-way between the baggage-room and the colored passengers' apartment.
And old black fat Butler will be standing by the baggage-room door with his wheelbarrow, waiting to take our trunks. And we'll all talk at once. Everybody along the road will be calling 'Howdy! to us, and at the post-office Miss Mattie will come out to shake hands with us, and tell us how glad she is to see us back.
Though rudely built, she skimmed merrily over the water when the breeze was favourable. She was decked all over with bamboo; and on the after-part was erected a cottage of bamboo, which served as a cabin and baggage-room.
Our effects were principally in the baggage-room, and that, I understand from Captain Truck, has not been touched." "Indeed you are very fortunate, and I can only wish that the same good luck had happened to myself. But then, you know, Miss Effingham, that one has need of his little comforts, and, as for myself, I confess to rather a weakness in that way."
I'll see to havin' these 'ere stowed away in the baggage-room." And shouldering the bag, he seized the trunk by the handle and hauled it along over the rough embankment and up the steps, flaying one side as he went. "But, dear me! what am I to do?" said Mrs. Linceford piteously.
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