Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE WORLD ON WHEELS AND OTHER SKETCHES

bY

BENJ. F. TAYLOR

Chicago, S. C. Griggs & Co. 1874

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by S. C. Griggs & Co., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Printed at the Lakeside Press, Clark and Adams Sts., Chicago.

ONLY THIS:

The Wheels in this book ran, during the summer of 1873, through the columns of THE NEW YORK EXAMINER AND CHRONICLE, to "the head and front of whose offending," the

REV. EDWARD BRIGHT, D.D.,

who gave those wheels "the right of way," the old rolling stock and a miscellaneous cargo is

CORDIALLY CONSIGNED.

ROLLING STOCK AND BILL OF LADING.

_THE WORLD ON WHEELS._

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. THE "WHEEL" INSTINCT 13

II. THE CONCORD COACH 17

III. THE RAGING CANAL 23

IV. THE IRON AGE 30

V. THE IRON HORSE 35

VI. PLUNGING INTO THE WILDERNESS 45

VII. VICIOUS ANIMALS 51

VIII. HABITS OF ENGINES AND TRAIN-MEN 60

IX. IN THE SADDLE 68

X. RACING AND PLOWING 74

XI. SNOW BOUND 82

XII. SCALDED TO DEATH 89

XIII. ALL ABOARD! 94

XIV. EARLY AND LATE 103

XV. DEAD HEADS 112

XVI. WORKING "BY THE DAY" 118

XVII. A SLANDERER AND A WEATHER MAKER 123

XVIII. DREAMING ON THE CARS 128

XIX. "MEET ME BY MOONLIGHT" 136

XX. THE MAKER OF CITIES 144

XXI. A CABOOSE RIDE 150

XXII. HATCHING OUT A WOMAN 154

XXIII. A FLANK MOVEMENT 159

XXIV. LIGHT AND SHADE 162

XXV. PRECIOUS CARGOES 168

_BAGGAGE._

I. MY STARRY DAYS 175

II. "NO. 104,163" 193

III. OUR OLD GRANDMOTHER 206

IV. OUT-DOOR PREACHING 216

V. THE STORY OF THE BELL 223

VI. "MY EYE!" 226

VII. THE OLD ROAD 241

VIII. A BIRD HEAVEN 251

ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE GREEN TRAVELER _Frontispiece._

THE CONCORD COACH 19

THE BAGGAGE SMASHER 63

A LITTLE LATE 110

BAGGAGE 173

SWITCH OFF 258

THE WORLD ON WHEELS.