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 58 MY BAGGAGE LEFT BEHIND. 



Having descended and made some inquiries respecting 

 my baggage, the baggage-master coolly informed me " I 

 had got none," when, on my producing the baggage vouch 

 ers that had been given me on entering the boat to 

 cross over to Philadelphia, he explained that " I ought 

 to have given them up to the omnibus man, who took me 

 from the ferry to the hotel to supper." To this I replied, 

 " I saw no man and no omnibus, and that I had not been 

 asked for my tickets, as I had chosen to adopt the freedom 

 of his country, and to select a pedestrian conveyance 

 to where wanted to go.' 7 " I reckon you should have 

 ridden, then, and then your luggage would not have been 

 left behind." 



Having paid this fellow eight dollars for my dogs 

 (my dogs, in going to St. Louis, cost me more than my 

 own individual travel), I found there was nothing left 

 for it but to quit the train, or break the journey, and 

 stay at the hotel at Altoona and telegraph for my baggage 

 to be sent to me there. Here at last I found a civil gen 

 tleman, presiding over the telegraphic department of 

 Adams' Express, who, on seeing my friend's (Mr Hoey) 

 letter, and hearing my story and the extortionate way I 

 had been made to pay for my dogs, at once put the 

 telegraph in motion, recovered my baggage, and arrang 

 ed that my dogs should be taken with me when I pro 

 ceeded on my journey as far as Pittsburgh for nothing. 

 The hotel at which I found myself was a very large one, 

 and managed by an excellent and civil gentleman, who 

 studied my comforts, arranged a place for my dogs, and 

 made me comparatively happy. He was himself a 

 sportsman, and I agreed to stay a couple of days and ac 

 company him in search of any game that might be in 

 or about the woods or fields of the Alleghany forests ; and 



