Front matter
Reading edition
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THE GREEN TRAVELER, [See page 62.]
THE WORLD ON WHEELS AND OTHER SKETCHES
BY
Benj. F. Taylor
CHICAGO, S. C. GRIGGS & CO. 1874
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by S. C. GRIGGS & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
PRINTED AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS, CLARK AND ADAMS STS., CHICAGO.
ONLY THIS:
The Wheels in this book ran, during the summer of 1873, through the columns of The New York Examiner and Chronicle, to "the head and front of whose offending," the
REV. EDWARD BRIGHT, D.D.,
who gave those wheels "the right of way," the old rolling stock and a miscellaneous cargo is
Cordially Consigned.
ROLLING STOCK AND BILL OF LADING.
THE WORLD ON WHEELS.
CHAPTER. PAGE.
I. The "Wheel" Instinct 13
II. The Concord Coach 17
III. The Raging Canal 23
IV. The Iron Age 30
V. The Iron Horse 35
VI. Plunging into the Wilderness 45
VII. Vicious Animals 51
VIII. Habits of Engines and Train-Men 60
IX. In the Saddle 68
X. Racing and Plowing 74
XI. Snow Bound 82
XII. Scalded to Death 89
XIII. All Aboard! 94
XIV. Early and Late 103
XV. Dead Heads 112
XVI. Working "By the Day" 118
XVII. A Slanderer and a Weather Maker 123
XVIII. Dreaming on the Cars 128
XIX. "Meet Me by Moonlight" 136
XX. The Maker of Cities 144
XXI. A Caboose Ride 150
XXII. Hatching out a Woman 154
XXIII. A Flank Movement 159
XXIV. Light and Shade 162
XXV. Precious Cargoes 168
BAGGAGE.
I. My Starry Days 175
II. "No. 104,163" 193
III. Our Old Grandmother 206
IV. Out-Door Preaching 216
V. The Story of the Bell 223
VI. "My Eye!" 226
VII. The Old Road 241
VIII. A Bird Heaven 251
ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Green Traveler Frontispiece.
The Concord Coach 19
The Baggage Smasher 63
A Little Late 110
Baggage 173
Switch Off 258
THE WORLD ON WHEELS.