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Updated: May 26, 2025
This I did, and soon had the pleasure of leaving her happy and reassured beside her box and bundle. The passage home, though a rough one, was cheerfully and patiently borne. I found a compound motion, the motion of a screw steamer, a roll and a plunge less trying to my head than the simple rocking or pitching of the side-wheeled Scotia. One motion was in a measure a foil to the other.
Five and forty years ago it was a very serious undertaking to uproot one's self, say good-bye to all that was nearest and dearest, and go down beyond the horizon in an ill-smelling, overcrowded, side-wheeled tub. Not a soul on the dock that day but fully realized this.
Busy little side-wheeled ferry steamers spanked the waters noisily and smudged the sunset with dark drifting trails of smoke; and ever and anon a rowboat would slip out of shadow to glide languidly with the current. Otherwise the life of the river was gone; and at their moorings the ships swung in great quietness, riding lights glimmering like low wan stars.
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