The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-05-14
An Incident OF Colorado Travel.

instant there came in with her ruddy-
blue-eyed boy, whose years were
not counted above ten. She carried in her
arms a bundle closely and carefully
wrapped. at the end of which tiny face
diminutive copy of her own.
Carefully placing this bundle upon a seat,
she next dragged in box and basket,
and the strong odor of bilge water. such as
ever pervades the Storage or between
decks of the emigrant vessel. announced
to the indifferently interested passengers
that my fellow passenger was an emil
grant.
She was not more than thirty. she was
fair, and appeared as strange and timid as
the antelope we saw from the car windows
gliding over the plains. But no one spoke
TO her, no one presumed to claim acouaint-
ance with this travel-soiled, weary looking
young woman, and as she sat upon the
next seat to my own gazing wearily out
upon the wide bleak monOtOnv of the
plains, | observed several times during the
day that her large blue eyes filled with
tears, and that the little boy in Scotch cap,
knee breeches and black hose, busted him
self in a vain attempt to comfort his
" mother" All this | observed from be
hind my book, which book proved a medi
UNI of communication between nv fellow
passenger and myself.
81 beg pardon, sir, but can you tell me
when we shall arrive Cooking at an en-
velope) at Bijou Station?"
Tomorrow evening sometime, if all
goes WELL" replied.
ais the country out there as wild and
sparsely settled as this, sir?'
Yes, madam, or more so. 1t depends
very much upon the portion of the Bijou
you go to-"
The ice being broken between myself
and my fellow-passenger she soon fell
victim to professional American news
paper interviewer to whom she told her
story.
But this story would have but little in
terest for the general reader, were it not
for the sequel, which is herewith given. |
will give her story as near as possible, in
her own words:
"Yes, sir, am from England. / left
there three weeks ago. | observed you
reading Dickens, and | took the liberty of
speaking to you. Do | admire Dickens?
Yes, sir, loved him. | am a relative of
his, and have Ofttimes visited him at his
place at Gads Hill. | am from GlOster.
Do you know GlOstcr? 1t is a dear old
town. We lived Just within the shadow of
AildO I'd VIZ IiiCuCell
old town. | expect we will never meet
again. It's great old structure, sir. You
can read all about it in Uncle Charles's last
book, The Mystery of Edwin Brood"
He describes our town just as it is. We
all loved Mr.. Dickens. | walked with him
many times in the grand old structure, for
he made our home his home when he came
to Gloster. He only lived ten miles away,
and frequently came to see us while he
was working upon his last book. | OBJ
served you reading one of his works, and
made so free as to speak, for am-oh so
very lonesome and strange here Did |
come all the way alone, sir? Yes, sir. But
it was wrong in me to attempt it. think
sometimes | shall give up before | reach
my husband. But Charles is quite a man
to me. You have no idea, sir, how clever
and kind my little son has been to me- both
on the voyage and at Halifax, at Balti-
more, and Cincinnati. How do L like the
States, did you say? Oh, sir, don't like
them at all like the State of Cincinnati
the best of any | have been in. L stopped
at HalifiX. 1t is dull, cold, miserable
place. They kept us three days at Balti-
more to discharge cargo. At Cincinnati
my luggage was smashed, and had to
purchase deal boxes to pack in. They
charged me a sovereign for them | was
detained one day at st. Louisa nasty,
gloomy, smoky place, is it not, sir? AT
LeavenwOrth they refused to take my Eng
liSh gold for my hotel bill, and | was in
great trouble and distress. Did get my
luggage all rlShI! es' sir. lneTe Is liille
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