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tifully upholstered seats, you cannot make them 

 into beds, and to have to sit up night and day 

 for a journey of seventy hours or more is no joke. 

 Then the cooking-stove may be a great help 

 if properly worked ; and here our knives, forks, 

 and small supply of food, which we can add to 

 and replenish, come in, making us independent 

 of wild rushes to wayside restaurants, with hasty 

 gobbling up of such food as we can get hold of— 

 if, indeed, similar raids from previous trains have 

 left any for us. 



" Yes," said Tom, as we arranged with our 

 young friends, who were going through, " the 

 railroad circulars have made a great talk of these 

 colonist cars and their comparative comfort, but, 

 as I understand, they are always available." 



" So I once thought," said I ; " but it does 

 not always seem to work out so ; they run short 

 of such cars, or for their own purposes change 

 you from one car to another. But what are all 

 those people looking at ? — the land, I suppose. 

 Yes, there it is." 



There is always something exhilarating in the 

 sight of land after an ocean voyage, even in these 

 days of swift steamers ; and to the many who 

 for the first time are looking on their adopted 

 country, such an experience may mean much 

 more. To the " matter of fact " it will not 



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