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a letter, to be shown to all the express messengers on 

 the line ; but, with one exception, they "paid no more 

 attention to Mr Hoey's desires than they would have 

 done to those of any one of whom they knew nothing. 

 And here again I learned that every American deemed 

 attention or obedience to his superior, whether in educa 

 tion or office, as degrading to the state of his free citi 

 zenship, and beneath the consideration of men of a nation 

 possessed of universal suffrage. 



Having made the best arrangements in my power, I 

 took tickets for the journey throughout, with power to 

 stop where I pleased, and met my dogs and George 

 Bromfield on Wednesday, the 8th of September, at the 

 station in New Jersey, a little before 4 p.m. Here, then, 

 my troubles on these miserable railways commenced- 

 the insolent baggage-master, although I showed him Mr 

 Hoey's letter, said he could not take my dogs, for he had 

 no place to put them ; to which I replied, " Then I will 

 not go." After some demur, and the train on the eve of 

 departure, he pointed to a little sort of cabin on the train 

 (there is no such thing on an English line), and said 

 some of them must go there, and the rest with my man 

 in the baggage-van ; and to my horror I saw Druid drag 

 ged in by a fellow in rags whom he had never seen be 

 fore, who was told to hold him and one of the other 

 dogs ; and while the carriages were in motion, somehow 

 and somewhere or other, myself and Bromfield and the 

 other dogs got in, and were soon progressing in a most 

 unsatisfactory way. This train was to convey me only 

 as far as Philadelphia, and to get there I had to take the 

 boat across the river, and then another train on all night, 

 alleged to reach Altoona at 6 a.m., but we were hours be 

 hind time. My object in reaching Altoona at that hour 



