The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches

The Wheels in this book ran, during the summer of 1873, through the columns of The New York Examiner and Chronicle, to "the head and front of whose offending," the

REV. EDWARD BRIGHT, D.D.,

who gave those wheels "the right of way," the old rolling stock and a miscellaneous cargo is

Cordially Consigned.

ROLLING STOCK AND BILL OF LADING.

THE WORLD ON WHEELS.

CHAPTER.		PAGE.
I.	The "Wheel" Instinct	13
II.	The Concord Coach	17
III.	The Raging Canal	23
IV.	The Iron Age	30
V.	The Iron Horse	35
VI.	Plunging into the Wilderness	45
VII.	Vicious Animals	51
VIII.	Habits of Engines and Train-Men	60
IX.	In the Saddle	68
X.	Racing and Plowing	74
XI.	Snow Bound	82
XII.	Scalded to Death	89
XIII.	All Aboard!	94
XIV.	Early and Late	103
XV.	Dead Heads	112
XVI.	Working "By the Day"	118
XVII.	A Slanderer and a Weather Maker	123
XVIII.	Dreaming on the Cars	128
XIX.	"Meet Me by Moonlight"	136
XX.	The Maker of Cities	144
XXI.	A Caboose Ride	150
XXII.	Hatching out a Woman	154
XXIII.	A Flank Movement	159
XXIV.	Light and Shade	162
XXV.	Precious Cargoes	168
BAGGAGE.
I.	My Starry Days	175
II.	"No. 104,163"	193
III.	Our Old Grandmother	206
IV.	Out-Door Preaching	216
V.	The Story of the Bell	223
VI.	"My Eye!"	226
VII.	The Old Road	241
VIII.	A Bird Heaven	251

ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Green Traveler	Frontispiece.
The Concord Coach	19
The Baggage Smasher	63
A Little Late	110
Baggage	173
Switch Off	258

THE WORLD ON WHEELS.

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THE WORLD ON WHEELS AND OTHER SKETCHES

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)
from page images generously made available by
Internet Archive
(https://archive.org)

THE WORLD ON WHEELS
AND OTHER SKETCHES