The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-29

1t is highly important to those who travel
from London to Edinburgh in day. and
who cannot read or 90 to sleep in railway
carriage, to secure for themselves an agree
able travelling companion. "a
Having to take this journey very often,
and laboring under the above disadvantages
IL DO. the practice of looking out for eli
CHILE fellow passengers, at Kings Cross or
Custom Square, has made me pretty perfect
in nv judgment. The most cursory Of
elances sufiices to convince me Of who's
who, in the 9, \. NJ, in the case of four
hfths of its live stock, whose rank and Sit
uation can approximate to with the fidell-
ty of Il collector of income tax, and whose
very opinions can often predicate without
giving them the trouble Of opening their
p<. -.
Four Grths Of the human racc-Or, at all
events, of 50 much of it as travels in the
first class by ralway-can be assorted in
about half a dozen pigconholes, and when
you have seen 4 specimen OF each descrip-
ton. YOU have seen all, the rest being but
Duplicates.
Club fogv, army swell, man of business,
country gentleman, parson, and individual
with grievance; very nice ope, all,
without doubt, and may they live thousand
years at the very least-but ust conceive
an eleven hours ournev in the same car
riacc with any one of them OF the gentler
sex say nothing, save Bless their hearts,
and NAV they never grow day Older For
as to being shut up eleven hours wi h the
same female, am very sure the honor
would be altogether too much for me.
My sphere Of choice, then, being thus
narrow cd to one fifth Of the human race,
(maic,) who travel in first class cars, and
my eye being, rs have said, unerrinS, |
generally choose the carriage which is Oc-
cu3icd by the most intelligent man in the
train. never, indeed, made II mistake,
that can remember, but once, when, at the
same instant in which deposited myself
and my carpet bag in a car, the individual
whose appearance had captivated me, walk
c,l right out of it with his hands in his
pockets.
On Tuesday, the 2Oth of July last, had
occasion to set out northward, as usual,
frcm custom Square. was q little late
and hurried, and there was not a very vari-
ed collection of passengers to choose from.
As walked hastily by the side of the al
ltHtN hCtutItu tlINs tiic eutl u
would, in his impatIenco, have twice con-
dnctcd me to DURANGO vile--once in COM
pany with whole juvenile family, who had
already commenced eating and smelling
ham sandwiches, and once with no less
than five Calcdonians, only waiting for an
EngIishman that they might begin to dllate
upon the projections of their native land.
cast myself into the last through car in
despair, and without so much us looking be-
fore me. 1t was probable that my luck
would be better; it could hardly, as may
be expected, at all events, be very much
worse.
Besides myself, the carriage had but one
other occupant: young man of an alto
g"thcr gcntlemanly appearance, except, per-
haps, that his clothes looked suspIclously
new, and his hat somewhat too glossy. He
was not reading the Times so intently but
that he could spare scrutinizing glance at
the new arrival, as rammed my carpet
bag under the seat with my hands, and kept
pretty sharp lookout, under my right arm.
on him. When rose he was again buried
ln-yes!-i the advertisement sheet. The
gentleman, then, had probably some good
reason for conceallng his talent for obscr-
vation. Nobody who is not in want of a
situation gets wrapped up in an ADVERTISE
mcnt sheet; and my companion, felt sure,
was in want Of no such thing. His pro-
fession, whatever that mis- ght be, had been
settled long ago, and the hshing-rou and
guidebook which rcposcd over his head, dis
closcda young gentleman with money to
spare, who was about to take a summer hol-
iday among the trout streams of the North.
One circumstance, which occurred lust after
we started, persuaded me that he must needs
be a lawyer (and, indeed, as afterwards
turned out. his pursuits did somewhat par
take of the nature of that cailing,) so much
did it smack of ready reasoning and prac-
ticcd acutencss. Leaning out of the win
dow rs the train began to move, the wind
carried away his glossy hat, whercupon, in
stead Of sitting down for!ornly. and NUT
terlng Good gracious! or Confound it -
the young man seized upon his hat box and
launched that after the missing property.
"My hat-box," he exclaimed, in answer
to my stare of amazcment. "has nv Edin-
bursh address in it, but my hat has not
The one is of little use without the other,
and it is probable, since We have, barely left
the station, that they will both be found,
and forwarded to me by the next train.
lierc was an original Here was grand
exception to Eve 6fths of the human race
who travel in first class carriages, | hucsed
myself at the notion Of having secured SO
promising companion, and that, too, after
such Il couple Of previous escapes.
'But how do you know? | urged, be.
cause had nothing better to say, and deter
mined, at all risks, not to suffer the copyer
sation to drop, show do you know that
somebody won't steal them?'
q don't know replied the other, with q
contemptuous dryness, ''but 1 do not think
it probable. The articles would fetch Sc
small price that the reward would be like.
ly to be quite as remuneratve as the swas
itself, and, of course without the risk
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