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With an outfit of two, three, or four of such, I have made journeys of as much as eighteen hundred miles in a single season, usually from post to post, averaging in distance about two hundred miles a week, with as much regularity as is done today by the steam-car its five hundred miles a day; but those days are gone, and, though I recognize the great national advantages of the more rapid locomotion, I cannot help occasionally regretting the change.
"It seems to me that a drive through Paris would be very enjoyable to-night." And so we told the man to proceed along the quays as far as he could, and then through the Champs Elysées to the Bois de Boulogne. The Seine slept by its deserted parapets like a silver snake, and only the low rumble of the steam-car from Versailles disturbed its slumber.
But even this noisy vehicle, that abridged distance and brought far cities near together, outgrew its usefulness and gave way to its rival, the steam-car, which could hurry men through the land as on the wings of a tornado.
It is painful to see young persons losing their teeth merely for want of a few simple precautions; and one cannot enter stage or steam-car without finding the atmosphere polluted, and rendered absolutely unhealthy for the lungs to breathe, when a proper use of water and charcoal might render it as wholesome and pleasant as a breeze of Eden.
Is there anything different to that in New York? Or can they do without cemeteries? Twemlow laughed, and again he had the illusion of having come back to reality after a long, hurried dream. 'Nothing seems to have changed here, he remarked idly. 'Nothing changed! said Meshach. 'Nay, nay! We're up in the world. We've got the steam-car. And we've got public baths. We wash oursen nowadays.
For this reason I sometimes go upon a pedestrian tour, which is of no great extent in itself, and which I moreover modify by keeping always within sound of the horse-car bells, or easy reach of some steam-car station. I fear that I should find these rambles dull, but that their utter lack of interest amuses me.
Most of our people come from Boston on the horse-cars, and it is only the dwellers on the Avenue and the neighboring streets whom hurrying homeward I follow away from the steam-car station. The Avenue is our handsomest street; and if it were in the cosmopolitan citizen of Charlesbridge to feel any local interest, I should be proud of it.
Hinchcliffe returned, drawn as by ropes to my steam-car, round which he walked in narrowing circles. "What's her speed?" he demanded of the engineer. "Twenty-five," said that loyal man. "Easy to run?" "No; very difficult," was the emphatic answer. "That just shows that you ain't fit for your rating.
"Why, since the time we were snow-bound in a train together." "Oh! when was that?" burst out the boy. "Tell me about it snow-bound in a steam-car train? That must have been jolly." "Come away, Junior!" exclaimed his father. "You don't care anything about that, I'm sure." "Oh, yes I do, Pop. I want to hear about it. Fancy being snow-bound in a steam-car train!"
But there are two sisters. The youngest is married, and just going to have a baby, poor thing! The other one keeps house. I believe she's a splendid girl, but neither of them is a bit like Edwin. Not a bit. He's " "What?" "I don't know. Look here, miss! What about this rain? I vote we take the car up the hill." The steam-car was rumbling after them down Duck Bank.
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