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WALKS AND TALKS 



OF AN 



AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND, 



CHAPTER I. 



Emigrant Passenger Agents Second Cabin Mutiny Delay De- 

 parture. 



TI7E intended, if we could be suited, to take a second cabin 

 state-room for our party of three, and to accommodate me, 

 my friends had agreed to wait till after " planting." While I 

 therefore hurried on the spring work upon my farm, they in the 

 city were examining ships and consulting passenger agents. The 

 confidence in imposition those acquire who are in the habit of 

 dealing with emigrant passengers, was amusingly shown in the 

 assurance with which they would attempt to lie down the most 

 obvious objections to what they had to offer ; declaring that a 

 cabin disgusting with filth and the stench of bilge-water was 

 sweet and clean ; that darkness in which they would be groping 



