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other person can get aboard after the seats are all full. 

 Or, if you enter a public hall, you know you will not 

 be required to stand up unless you pay the standing-up 

 price. There is everywhere that system, and order, 

 and fair dealing, which all men love. The science of 

 living has been reduced to a fine point. You pay a 

 sixpence, and get a sixpence worth of whatever you 

 buy. There are all grades and prices, and the robbery 

 and extortion so current at home appear to be un- 

 known. 



I am not contending for the superiority of every- 

 thing English, but would not disguise from myself or 

 my readers the fact of the greater humanity and con- 

 sideration that prevail in the mother country. Things 

 here are yet in the green, but I trust there is no good 

 reason to doubt that our fruit will mellow and ripen in 

 time like the rest 



