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made the most of it in the way of entertainment, 

 getting up a tea occasionally for persons stopping 

 over in the village at a meal -time, also selling small 

 articles of grocery to the laborers. Every thing was 

 brought from a distance, even their bread, bacon and 

 butter. Their stock of these fundamentals was ex- 

 hausted, so that they could not give us anything 

 with our tea until the arrival of the train from the 

 north, which we all watched with common interest. 

 In the course of half an hour it came, and soon our 

 cabin-landlord brought in a large basket full of the 

 simplest necessaries of life, which we were quite pre- 

 pared to enjoy as its best luxuries. Soon a wood 

 fire blazed for us in the double-bedded parlor, and the 

 unpainted deal table was spread in the fire-light with 

 a repast we relished with a pleasant appreciation. 



My companion was bound northward by the next 

 train in that direction, and was sure to find good 

 quarters for the night ; but as there was not an inn 

 for ten miles on the route I was to travel, and as it 

 was now quite night and the road mostly houseless and 

 lonely, I felt some anxiety about my own lodging. 

 But on inquiry I was very glad to find that one of 

 the two beds in the room was unoccupied and at 

 my disposal. So, having accompanied my fellow- 

 traveller to the station and seen him off with mutual 



