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ore. To him entered suddenly an express train, with that haste which seems to be inseparable from the movements of express trains, adorned

s-may his shadow never be less!-had personally superintended the packing of the canoe on a low carriage which he put on to the train specially; and how the G.W. charged four times as much as the G.N. He had seen John the day before, and on being asked to 'wander about, and get some things with him,' the Skipper had replied that it was quite impossible, as his time was occupied for the whole day

t tyke at Doncaster had looked into the horse-box in which his canoe was travelling, hoping no d

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sale. We immediately entered that shop without exchanging a word, and the Skipper said to the proprietress, 'This gentleman wants to buy a quantity of strawberries for a school feast;' while Es

a large waggon-sheet intended to form another tent, a bundle of rugs and blankets, a large can containing all cooking utensils, four gun-cases, seven rods, a bundle of axes, a spade and other necessary tools, and th

ng else in the steamship 'Angelo;' registering 1,300 tons; yet this vast pile was de

d a smooth sea. It was showery up to the moment of our departure, but as Hull faded from our si

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eeps. The passengers were as sociable as any collection of English people ever are, and we spent the time very p

th great good temper said, to make it all right, 'You see that man by the funnel? That is a Yankee going to see the midnight sun; go and talk to him.' Now the Skipper has been in America a good deal, and likes to talk to the natives of those regions, so he sailed over to the funnel and tackled the Yankee. Presently, with that admirable tact which is his most enviable characteristic, he observed, 'I understand that you have come all the way from America to see the midnight sun: it is a very extraordinary phenomenon. Imagine a glorious wealth of colour glowi