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He was fortunate enough when he got on to the highroad to be overtaken by the stage-coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new-made railway, observing to his fellow-passengers that he considered it pretty well seasoned now it had done for Huskisson. Mr.
The weather was cold, and I was certainly used up when I arrived in Peoria. I went to bed, departing early the following morning, by steamer, for Peru, a distance of twenty-five miles. From there I took the stage-coach to Dixon, a distance of twelve miles.
Horses and mules took fright at the slightest whiff of them. The camels themselves could stand neither the climate nor the hard rock road. They were turned adrift on the Thompson river, where the last of them died in 1905. There was something highly romantic in the stage-coach travel of this halcyon era.
The vehicle for our conveyance was not, as in these latter days, a dashing stage-coach and four for there was nothing of the kind on the public roads of Scotland fifty years ago but a caravan or wagon, having a sort of rail round three sides of it, and covered overhead with a canvas cloth on strong hoops, with an aperture behind to let in the travellers, and the fresh air, and the light.
I know there are privileged souls, who can make verses everywhere in the tumult of court life, in the loneliness of Cirey, in the prisons of the Bastile, and in the stage-coach. My poor soul does not enjoy this freedom. "Ah! this is the first time I have caught the Solomon of the North in an untruth," cried Voltaire, eagerly.
'Was you a looking for anything? he then asked, in a pointed manner. 'I was wondering whether there happened to be any fragment of an old stage-coach here. 'Is that all? 'That's all. 'No, there ain't. It was now my turn to say 'Oh! and I said it. Not another word did the dry and grizzled man say, but bent to his work again.
And young Evelina never at twilight strolled up the road in the direction of Thomas Merriam's home, where she might quite reasonably hope to meet him, since he was wont to go to the store when the evening stage-coach came in with the mail from Boston.
It represents to John, somehow, authority, government, the right of way; the driver is an autocrat, everybody must make way for the stage-coach. It almost satisfies the imagination, this royal vehicle; one can go in it to the confines of the world, to Boston and to Albany. There were other influences that I daresay contributed to the boy's education.
Then she might have remembered that in all the North the great, busy, bustling, over-confident, giantly Great-heart of the continent there is not to be found a single "Northern" hotel, steamer, railway, stage-coach, bar-room, restaurant, school, university, school-book, or any other "Northern" institution. The word "Northern" is no master-key to patronage or approval.
This was undoubtedly the greatest duel of modern times; certainly nothing like it ever occurred on the Santa Fe Trail before or since. The war chief of the Kiowa nation in the early '50's was Satank, a most unmitigated villain; cruel and heartless as any savage that ever robbed a stage-coach or wrenched off the hair of a helpless woman.
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