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greeted with, " Hello, here's our l Special Artist ' again : 

 he's got enough of trying to play toney. They might 

 have known the train would smash with such a sinner 

 aboard," and much more to the same effect. " Grass- 

 hopper " had saved a seat for me, as he had expected I 

 would get kicked off somewhere. u Cupid," they told 

 me, had " married the schoolmarm at Ogden," and was 

 now in the family car. All the passengers were invited 

 to the wedding, which took place in the station. Poor 

 " Purpose," the man who frightened us nearly to 

 death, had been robbed at Ogden of his gold watch and 

 chain, five hundred dollars, and, in fact, all he had but 

 his ticket and clothes, and was now sober enough, and 

 as penitent as such men generally are. We had to wait 

 at Terrace until about noon, when the track was fin- 

 ished, and again the slow freight train was left behind, 

 and we were whisked along at a good speed on first- 

 class time. On looking over a San Francisco paper 

 soon after starting, I was pleased to see that the day of 

 sailing of the Australian steamer " Zealandia " had 

 been changed to December 20, and I had now plenty 

 of time to get there. The country through which we 

 subsequently passed was for miles a perfect desert, 

 and looked, as a great speaker once said, " Bare and 

 blasted as ' perdition ' with the fires out." Several hot 

 springs were seen from a distance near two extinct 

 volcanoes ; and at a small station at which we stopped, 

 many painted and blanketed Indians came round to 



