New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-16
THE BEDFORDSHIRE EMIGRANI
ARAILWAY STORY.

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Last week at the Bletchley junction, a
countryman. II iddle-aged, anxious and attenuated,
opened the door of carriage, and asked, IN the
Bedfordshire dialect, which l. DO not mere trans
cribe whether there was room for his Mlssu.
and children" On being assured that we would
epdeayor to accommodate that some what indeu-
mite number of persons, he ushercd IN an interest
inc ,.oman with a W ordering look and a thIn lace,
and baby AT her breast, followed by three other
children. appearing very much as peasant chl'uren
usually DO that is, looking az though they had
grown up in that case OF patched iustiah anu rug
ged corduroy, commonly called their clothes, ana
leaving YOU in doubt, from the JOINT effect Oh tue
stiffness and the fit whether the CT tines nave Ia
ken tht shape of the BODY, or the body the shape
OF the clothes.
cline TO the latter suppOsition. Inc father tooN
his scat nv their sd.. and kissed with unconscious
affection his awkward and passive progeny, VINO
neither cried nor moved, nor spoke lhey seened
tn labor uudrr a general Illumination. 0u cOud
not call the father of tins siolid tamiIy ilOuge
the race of the Hodges is nearly extinct lhe
countryman. who used to be represented un nu
that name. had distended checks, a Vermiilloh
bronze and a twinklipg eye, generated by those
renowned agricultural compounds, tat bacon, ire'h
ar couteutfpept and beer. Whereas the lips OF
our friend from Bedlordshre had none 0t the sehu-
inc rural purple, but wore instead, Una, ulouein
tnge that vile invention OF this lhiHua H''"7
age the poor-house blue and his cheeks ldnk aad
and collapsed, were OF that saffron ahd laIio" i'A
ture which comes OF labOring m the sun ali day.
and having nothing substantial Tor dinner -
The nnor man had never been out OF the fields
bef,re and he felt az o child. and spoke as chid,
- this his first venture into the strange vide
,,o,ld beyond the hut where he had Vegetated'
he told ms who he was, and where he was gong
That" said he, pointing 10 his wife, - = my
,,;ssus : that's our babby' at her breast; these
,,vo are INV children and that's my 'neTyey -
rok;pg in the stomach a twelye-year old BOY, VINO
at family grinnng IN a sinOckirock " and we afe
an gong 10 Australy. His mother cned lmean'
inc The neyvey's' motherj when We came away ;
bnt ne didn't cry. But 1t was no good nun stop
ming she couldn't take care Of INN. Ny VIE
didn't cry :...
II was impossible not 10 share this mans Just
,ride at his wife's 6mness. You could see h's
srcoupt was true, as YOU looked into her uncouded
% those accustomed To hear the Irish parting
cream. or witness the conyulsve weeping OF an
English euIigrant family, the ship Is hauling out
of the docks, could not but notice an exception so
agreeable a this As in some men the cultivated
sense of duty casts out the sense OF DANGER 80 IN
This woman deep and uhsOphIsticated curiosity
had east out all sense of apprehension Every
ching was as ne9 to her as TO the Indian captured
by Robinson Crusoe.
She wondered at every arch she peered at
every station house the tTain-whisue, the open
nsnorama of field and water rushing by, the dash
nnder tunnel, ere sounds, sights. aud incidents,
which filed her with ecstacy. What world Of
Hiss tins woman would experience before she
cached the golden shore OF Melbourne The
orient sun Showering down h million beams 90
the silver. IA i ng sea, the sight Of unknown lands