204 AN OCTOBER ABROAD. 



other, as the ticket-man, the railroad-conductor, or 

 even of the country stage-driver, seem to be features 

 peculiar to American democracy. In England, the 

 traveler is never snubbed, or made to feel that it is 

 by somebody's sufferance that he is allowed aboard 

 or to pass on his way. 



If you get into an omnibus or a railroad or train- 

 way carriage in London, you are sure of a seat. Not 

 another person can get aboard after the seats are all 

 full. Or, if you enter a public hall, you know you 

 will not be required to stand up unless you pay the 

 standing-up price. There is everywhere that system, 

 and order, and fair dealing, which all men love. The 

 science of living has been reduced to a fine point. You 

 pay a sixpence and get a sixpence worth of whatever 

 you buy. There are all grades and prices, and the 

 robbery and extortion so current at home appear to 

 be unknown. 



I am not contending for the superiority of every- 

 thing English, but would not disguise from myself or 

 my readers the fact of the greater humanity and con- 

 sideration that prevail in the mother country. Things 

 here are yet in the green, but I trust there is no good 

 reason to doubt that our fruit will mellow and ripen 

 in time like the rest. 



