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aesthetic," one of the boys in bkie remarked. AVe do not 

 go to muster, but as muster came to us we made the most 

 of it, and watched with interest the mounted men of 

 authority as they gave their orders to the men, who 

 looked as if they would like to change places with them 

 and prance about, instead of doing the drudgery. 



The morning hours were too precious for driving to be 

 spent among sunflowers and soldiers, and we got down 

 from the fence and went in search of the landlord. He 

 gave us directions for getting to New London when 

 everything was ready, and we found that what we 

 thought was the end of the street was the beginning of 

 our way, and a queer way it was, too. No wonder we 

 were asked if our horse was afraid of the cars, for appar- 

 ently the railroad was the only highway, as the water 

 came up quite close on either side. "Surely this must be 

 wrong," we said ; "there is no road here." Although we 

 had been told to follow the railroad, we did not propose 

 to drive into the ocean, unless it was the thing to do. We 

 turned off to the left but were sent back by a woman who 

 looked as if we knew little if we did not know that was 

 the only way to New London. Not satisfied, we stopped 

 a man. "Yes, that is the way," he said. "But it looks as 

 if we should drive right into the ocean." "I know it," he 

 replied, "and it will look more so as you go on, and if the 

 tide was in you would." Luckily for us the tide was not 

 in, for even then the space was so small between the 

 water and the railroad that Charlie needed as much diver- 

 sion with the whip as in ferrying the Connecticut. Next 

 came a little bridge, and as we paid the toll, which was 

 larger than the bridge, we asked if it was for keeping the 



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