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yes, sir, and pork, sir, goes for nothing ; yes, sir, that's 

 a fact." 



Eattling on in this way, in conversation with my 

 amusing friends, we came to Pittsburgh, and when my 

 dogs were removed from the luggage-van, I observed 

 they were suffering terribly from heat, and begged of all 

 I saw to tell me where I could get them some water. 

 Burnet, who had been out shooting, or in an attempt to 

 shoot, with me while at Altoona, was there rendering 

 me all the attention he could, but he too failed in pro 

 curing tvater. At last, by the offer of the silver coin 

 that does duty for an English shilling, a spawn of a 

 Boh-hoy, in the shape of a dirty little child, was roused 

 from his listless idleness ; he had scorned all allusion to 

 a " dime," 4he amount of which would have moved big 

 ger boys in England to walk a few yards, and at last he 

 brought my dogs some water. This, the obtaining 

 water for my dogs, left me but little time to swallow 

 (eating was out of the question) some of the coarse food 

 that railway house of entertainment afforded, when, 

 having struck a bargain with the baggage-master from 

 Pittsburgh as far as Staubenville, for the conveyance of 

 rny dogs the amount charged, I think through the in 

 tervention of Burnet, being but two dollars and a half 

 I was putting them into the van when the following 

 rudeness was offered me. A great dirty, bearded, 

 crumple-brimmed, high-crowned hatted fellow jostled 

 against me with his trunk, and very nearly threw it on 

 Druid's back. So rude and offensive was his manner, 

 and so needlessly rough his method, that I lost all pa 

 tience, and turned sharply round on him he was rather 

 behind me and said, " Gently, sir, I'm not at all dis- 



