Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-12-17
Tho Hawkeye Mans launt

fRoM GREAT FALLS, MASS, 10 LUDLOW, W.
You talk about discovering the
moth ives, passage, Did you ever
try to get from Great Falls to Ludlow
Vermont, IN one day
Thcnyou don'rkaov Ony'h'os about
| it,
II ever try Is hard TO get 10 hcav-
en- rs tried to get 10 Ludlow las,
Saturday, I'll &C. there.
PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS.
Comes to me, taking my ease at
nine inn at Great Falls, Friday night
from Rev Herbert Whitney Of Lud-
low, instructing me to "come to Bel
lows Falls and there take freight
tram for Ludlow | sent him word
that I'd take n gravel train il he said
so. And here is the way You get to
Ludlow
A GOOD START
1t is the inspiring hour OF 7,4O
u. m. which is in the incense breathing
morn. We sail out OF the Great Falls
depot, and | think would like to
sleep. Fifteen miles on the Boston
and Main railroad and cheerily sings
the brakeman.
ouT ON THE FIRST
"New Market Junction ! Change
ears for Portsmouth, Hook set, MaSSa-
besic. Haddam, North Haddam. East
Haddam Corner, New Hadlam Cen
ter, Haddam, Haddam all over, Man
chester and Concord -
OUT ON TIE SECOND.
YEARLY l drag myself out and
crawled into another train, on the
Concord railroad, Portsmouth dvis-
ion, and we sail away. Thirt. -one
uninterrupted miles of travel we run
south from Great Falls now we are
running west. Again the brakeman
chants his merry roundelay:
"AIanchester everybody change
cars
A DELEGATE FRNM THE FLowERY
KINGDOM.
And we change once more just Tor
variety, and in about twenty minutes
the express comes along and we start
for an uninterrupted ride northwest to
White River Junction eighty-seven
miles away, to the northwest, the pros
pect is delightful. On this train |
met Wang Chin Foo, the well-known
Chinese lecturer, on his way to Leb-
anon. where he is booked to entertain
and instruct, and if possible, to con-
vert to the doctrines Of Confucus a
large and intelligent audience of ap-
preciatlye Christians. For about
nineteen miles all goes well, and then
just as we are running into Concord
we see tie car ust forward careen,
and the next thing we know our
own coach is bounding energeticalIy,
but not pleasantly over the ties.
''sIDE OUT y
Everybody howls at everybody else
to "keep calm y the ladies are shrek.
ing SO you cannot hear the whistle.
My oriental friend and your most
Christian correspondent are making
co.nmendable efforts to keep off from
the stove halt a dozen passengers are
swinging from the bell-cord, alternate
| ly lifting each other off the floor by
their vrgourous pulls, and making
their efforts felt and heard in every
part of the train except at the gong
in the cab the brakeman is shouting
to us all to sit down and be still ; and
as the train stops and the car settles
quietly in the ditch, he calms us with
reassuring ''There you bel" and a
general, though rather hysteri.
cal laugh ripples through the car.
Then what next?
| HUNTING A NEW TRAIN.
The brakeman orders us out of the
car. saying it was too badly broken
i to 90 on. Then when we get oui
conductor orders us back. Then
when we go back the brakeman won''
let us in. Finally, man having
authority in his voice and gold band
on his hat sends us to the depot, where
we telegraph our expectant commit