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CHAP. III. 



" If our discretion tells us how to live, 

 "We need no ghost a helping hand to give ; 

 But if discretion cannot us restrain, 

 It then appears a ghost would come in vain." 



Crahbe. 



Among others, there is one very great error in the 

 French management of railway traffic. Anything 

 which causes confusion and delay to the traveller 

 ought to be avoided, and all unnecessary complication 

 in machinery of every description set aside. In 

 France there are different offices for the payment 

 of different things belonging to one and the same 

 passenger — in England one office and one payment 

 suffices for them all. At the Orleans station first I 

 had to pay at one window for my own ticket, at a 

 second for my dogs, and at a third for an over-weight 

 of luggage. In addition to this, the luggage is sepa- 

 rated from its owner, and the owner has not the 

 chance to see that it is duly put into the van and 

 none of it left behind. 



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