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open shops, butchers, bakers, hatters, shoemakers, 

 ready made clothiers, etc., a scene so different from 

 anything that I had ever seen at home on Sunday. 

 I had a jug of milk and two rolls in a milk-shop 

 or dairy, which sufficed well for breakfast. After 

 another stroll I went to church forenoon and after- 

 noon. Between the preachings I had a dinner similar 

 in cost to my breakfast and equally satisfying. I 

 went in the evening to a lecture on Death, but it 

 turned out, as the lecturer held, to be a lecture on No 

 Death, as he set forth that there was no death in the 

 world, that there never had been, nor ever would 

 be ; that it was only changes that were going on 

 from one state to another, whatever we choose to call 

 these changes. I had a cup of coffee and some bread 

 in the hotel before I went to bed. 



" On Monday morning the train for Liverpool with 

 third class left at 6 a.m. It was a slow train, and 

 it was a long tedious ride to Liverpool. The morn- 

 ing was very cold, and, to make myself more secure, 

 I put on all the shirts I had, and two pairs of 

 stockings, and cut the feet off a third pair and drew 

 them up over my thighs. With all these and a 

 warm great coat I was cold proof, and never felt 

 more comfortable in a railway carriage. Having 

 stayed in Liverpool all night, I got the steamer 

 next morning for Glasgow, and arrived safely home 

 with one halfpenny in my pocket, which was kept for 

 many a year as a remembrance of a long journey 

 finished with one halfpenny to spare ! " 



Though there are no strikingly dramatic incidents 

 in this expedition, the narrative is full of useful hints 



