56 JLV AMERICAN FARMER IX EXGLAND. 



larly intelligent, and even beautiful faces, so strangely out of 

 place, that if they had been cleaned and put in frames, so the 

 surroundings would not appear, you would have taken them for 

 those of delicate, refined, and intellectual ladies. 



Thursday Morning, May 30*A. 



"We packed all our traveling matter, except a few necessaries, 

 in two trunks and a carpet-bag, and I took them in a hackney 

 carriage to the freight station, to be sent to London. The trunks 

 were received, but the bag the clerks refused, and said it must be 

 sent from the passenger station. I had engaged to meet my 

 friends in a few minutes at the opposite side of the town from 

 the passenger station, and the delay of going there would vexa- 

 tiously disarrange our plans. I therefore urged them to take it, 

 offering to pay extra freight, etc. They would be happy to ac- 

 commodate me, but their rules did not admit of it. A carpet-bag 

 could not be sent from that station at any price. I jumped on to 

 the box, and drove quickly to the nearest street of shops, where, 

 at a grocers, I bought for a twopence a coffee-sack, and enclosing 

 the bag, brought it in a few minutes back to the station. There 

 was a good laugh, and they gave me a receipt at once for a sack 

 to be kept in London until called for. 



On the quay, I noticed a bareheaded man drawing with col- 

 ored crayons on a broad, smooth flagstone. He had represented, 

 in a very skillful and beautiful manner, a salmon laid on a china 

 platter, opposite a broken plate of coarse crockery; between 

 these were some lines about a " rich man's dish " and a " poor 

 man's dinner." He was making an ornamental border about it, 

 and over all was written, "Friends! lean get NO WORK ; I must 

 do this or starve" 



His hat, with a few pence in it, stood by the side of this. 



