OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



half acres, some thirty or forty miles from the 



city by the New X railway. He makes 



his trips to and fro with a little badly-dis- 

 guised fear of decayed "sleepers," it is true; 

 and suffers from the still more frequent em- 

 barrassment of riding upon his feet — all the 

 seats being occupied, and the company being 

 unfortunately too much straitened in their cir- 

 cumstances to add to the number of their 

 carriages. He was disposed to resent such 

 things at the start, and was even stirred into 

 writing a brief and indignant appeal to an 

 independent morning journal; but upon being 

 answered by an attorney for the company or 

 a road commissioner, who called him names 

 and abused him, as if he had been a witness 

 before a court of justice, he subsided into that 

 meek respect for corporations, and awe of all 

 their procedure, which are the characteristics 

 of a good American citizen, and of most well- 

 ordered newspapers. 



New Yorkers learn how to bear such things ; 

 there is no better schooling for submission 

 than a two or three years' course of travel 

 upon the city railways; Lackland is submis- 

 sive. And after a fatiguing day in Maiden 

 Lane, having come up Fourth Avenue with 

 a stout woman in his lap, he is grateful for 



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