The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-05-03
AN9 coNvERsABLE
rErr 0yNg OF Al JOURNEY

spark of pity tor itimil man wbo. ID
these locomotive lays, weakly con
fesses himself to II no traveller. and
/ who. under the m@ry Of an unasoid-
able Journey, sufred one Of those
friends who speak Of themselves as
always onflfe ihe 20 beguile him
out Of The snug enpty carnage he had
subsidized into, on the plea tha, The
next best thing % good carriage Is
good company
was that mas, helpless IN my
( friends hands, arfllryine to do q little
efi-band bravery, a feeble emulation
\ Of bis "always ofihe-lne noncha-
lance. dare saF my carelessness
vas not q success: know il was
mixed apwitba a strange desire to ask
my better informed friend how many
tunnels there wele on MY route, afd
whether they wels very long ones.
Bal shame helped me, and | refrained.
| took also, silently and j. great hu-
miliiy my seat in the carriage which
il pleased him % point olt And
when the train became uneasy, and
showed symptoms Of bolt, looking in
once more through the window, he
nodded slightly 10 myfellom-trayelers,
and gave me comfort in a whispered
aside
You'll do, now he said, pleasant
conyersable fellows on a journey
don't know that | liked the mo-
tion. II may be ultra English, per-
haps but certainly il seems TO nae
that the sensation Of being whirled
rapidly through the fresh air does not
induce a longing lcr conversation, but
rather predisposes one 70 silence. |
looked at my companions, however,
grizzly enough from my corner. There
we're only three Of mem: wlry man
with white hair, whose cheek-bones
looked as if the ska was too tight for
them, and they must inevitably burst
it and man whose face | could not
see, as he had got behind his newspa-
per, but from the way in which he
ruslled that same paper, and gave
vent to an occasional !" lHm, HIN" |
concluded that he was a nervous man.
As they all were or seemed TO be
reading, had opportunity for a copi-
Gus analysis of expression and feature,
il had felt disposed for i /; and was
just in the act Of calculating, from the
legs and other portions Of body which
we're visible to me, what sort Of face
might uppertain to the third indisidu
al, when its owner lowered the paper,
and cut short my examination with
horrible abruptuess.
Another irighttm rail road colls-
ion, said the negeas man, solemnly.
Travelling is becoming a thing Of
positive danger. It's awful
And lie placed finger, which trem-
bled either with the motion Of the car
riage or from pepraigic causes on
a column Of the paper,
Hump said the dyspeplic man.
did you ever happen 10 be il at the
DEATH mean AT a collision, sir?
! cannot say thai | ever did, was
the agitated response.
All it's nota pleasant thing
SO / should imagine. ! was once
in train when it took FIRE. The
screams of the women were appalling,
perfectly. We happened. fortunately,
to je near station, or ! don't know
what the constituencies would have
been. And that Is d casually Which
may occur at any moment
] was once in Tor "a collision, said
the dyspeptIc. 'The only sensation !
can think Of in connection with it is
what | suppose 10 be implied by the
figure Of speech, pitched into the
middle Of next week. That, at least,
was my first feeling the next was
one Of violent anger against a lady
whose head had butted like a batter
ingram into my chest. ! suppose she
could not help it, and | dare say |
was not the oply sufferer by the con-
tact; butpdople should be more care
ful how they sit. My digestion has
never been right since. With the ex.
ception Of tbat. | sustained no injury.
which was fortunate, as there were a
few people killed. and some disagreea-
bly, wounded. also once travelled in
a carriage whose joints we're in such a
state Of disunion that | positively at
times held my breath in terror, ex-
peelng every minuie that the thing
would smash under me. AT the first
station | called the guard, Of course.
He Just gave look at my carriage,
and shook lis head al it knowingly.
"0h, It's that custoner again. is
ln? He's at bis old tricks. He'll
drop to pieces one Of these fine days.
Come along, sir, I'll find you ap-
other.
What line was ihat OH inquired
the nervous man.
when one thinks proceeded the
dyspepiic, disregarding the question,
ol the trivial causes which win pro-
duce railway accidents, the only won
der is that there are not more. |
have beard il asserted that 50 slight
thing ar the burrowiug Of a mole is
enough to throw a whole train Of tbe
iinc. by causing lie sleeper to sink.
Whether II is really true or not---
A voice intercepted The speaker.
By tie way. put 1t 70 any candid
sr,ti 4ty, tsiasS "A frayeier whether these.