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Bits Of Travel At Home
Author: H. H.

Text extracted from opening pages of book: BITS Of TRA VEL AT HOME. BY H. H., AUTHOR OF ** BtTS OF TKAVHL, ** BITS OF TALK ABOUT MATTERS, BITS OF TALK FOR YOUNG FOJ. KS, VBRSBS BV H. H. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS-1887. CONTENTS. CALIFORNIA. Page FROM CHICAGO TO OGDEN .. 3 SALT LAKE CITY 17 FROM OGDEN TO SAN FRANCISCO 2$ THE GEYSERS 41 HOLY CROSS V... more »ILLAGE AND MRS. POPE'S 53 THE CHINESE EMPIRE 62 SAN FRANCISCO 77 THE WAY TO AH-WAH-NE 87 THE DESCENT INTO AH-WAH-NE 98 AH-WAH-NH DAYS 105 Pl-WY-ACK AND YO-WI-HB 115 PATILLIMA AND LOYA 126 POHONO 134 FROM BIG OAK FLAT TO MURPHY'S 140 LAKE TAHOB 148 MY DAY IN THE WILDERNESS 157 NEW ENGLAND. HIDE-AND-SEEK TOWN 175 THE MIRACLE PLAY OF 1870, TV BETHLEHEM, N. H. . . 191 A GLIMPSE OF COUNTRY WINTER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE . 196 A MORKING IN A VERMONT GRAVEYARD . . . . . . aor Vl CONTENTS. COLOR A PO Page A SYMPHONY IN YELLOW AND RFD 2x1 COLORADO SPRINGS 224 CHEYENNE CANYON 734 A COLORADO WEEK . 243 A STUDY OF RED CANYON 271 CENTRAL CITY AND BOB-TAIL TUNNEL 276 GEORGETOWN AND THE TERRIBLE MINK 286 BOWLDER CANYON 300 THE CRADLE OP PEACE 307 A WINTER MORNING AT COLORADO SPRINGS . . ... 316 GRAND CANYON or THE ARKANSAS 322 OUR NEW ROAD 331 NORTH CHEYENNE CANYON 345 WA-HA-TOY-A; OR, REFORE THE GRADERS ..... 351 THE PROCESSION OF FLOWERS IN COLORADO .... 363 LITTLE ROSE AND THE HOUSE OF THE SNOWY RANGE,' 376 A NEW ANVIL CHORUS 386 A CALENDAR OP SUNRISES IN COLORADO 407 CALIFORNIA. BITS OF TRAVEL AT HOME, FROM CHICAGO TO OGDEN. nights and four days in the cars t These words haunted us and hindered our rest What should we eat and drink, and wherewithal should we be clothed ? No Scripture was strong enough to calm our anxious thoughts ; no friend's experience of comfort and ease on the journey sounded credible enough to disarm our fears. Dust is dust, said we, and railroad is railroad. All restaurant cooking in America is intoler able. We shall be wretched ; nevertheless, we go. There is a handsome black boy at the Sherman House, Chicago, who remembers, perhaps, how many parcels of life preservers of one kind and another were lifted into our drawing-room on the Pullman cars. But nobody else will ever know. Our drawing-room ? Yes, our drawing-room ; and this is the plan of it : A small, square room, occupying the whole width of the car, excepting a narrow passage way on one side; four windows, two opening on this passage-way and two opening out of doors ; two doors, one opening into the car and one opening into a tiny closet, which held a washstand basin. This closet had another door, opening into another drawing-room be yond. No one but the occupants of the two drawing rooms could have access to the bath-closet. On one side of our drawing-room a long sofa 5 on the other two large arm-chairs^ wnich could be wheeled so as to face the sofa. Two shining spittoons < ud plenty cf . ooking 4 BITS OF TRAVEL AT HOME. glass, hooks high up on the sides, and silver-plated rods for curtains overhead, completed the list of furniture. Room on the floor for bags and bundles and baskets ; room, too, for a third chair, and a third chair we had for a part of the way, an easy-chair, with a sloping back, which belonged to another of these luxurious Pullman cars. A perplexing sense of domesticity crept over us as we settled into corners, hung up our cologne bottles, and missed the cat ! Then we shut both our doors, and smiled triumphantly into each other's faces, as the train glided out of the station. No one can realize until he has journeyed in the delightful quiet and privacy of these small drawing-rooms on the Pullman cars how much of the wear and tear of railroad travel is the result of the contact with people. Be as silent, as unsocial, as surly as you please, you cannot avoid being more or less im pressed by the magnetism of every human being in the car. Their faces attract or repel ; you like, you dislike, you wonder, you pity, you resent, you loathe. In the course of twenty-four hours you have expended a great amount of n

ISBN-13: 9781406755268
ISBN-10: 1406755265
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 416
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Publisher: H. Press
Book Type: Paperback
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