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The World on Wheels and Other Sketches
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Title: The World on Wheels and Other Sketches
Author: Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor
Release Date: January 24, 2014 [eBook #44745]
Language: English
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THE WORLD ON WHEELS
AND OTHER SKETCHES
BY
Benj. F. Taylor
CHICAGO,
S. C. GRIGGS & CO.
1874
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
S. C. GRIGGS & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
PRINTED AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS,
CLARK AND ADAMS STS.,
CHICAGO.
ONLY THIS:
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 |