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At Guittards', a station famous among such passengers as have reached there in
proper season for delicious suppers, we to-night stopped only long enough to
change horses, and I took advantage of the halt to climb to the box. Here I rode
the ...
At Guittards', a station famous among such passengers as have reached there in
proper season for delicious suppers, we to-night stopped only long enough to
change horses, and I took advantage of the halt to climb to the box. Here I rode
the ...
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At Virginia City, one hundred and thirty miles from Atchison, the stage stopped for
dinner about noon ; but our recollections of a station breakfast were not
sufficiently fascinating to tempt us into sitting down at table. We now had
occasion to ...
At Virginia City, one hundred and thirty miles from Atchison, the stage stopped for
dinner about noon ; but our recollections of a station breakfast were not
sufficiently fascinating to tempt us into sitting down at table. We now had
occasion to ...
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Indeed, wherever we stopped long enough to do, or get any cooking done, on
our behalf, we always varied our else carnivorous meal by something succulent
from the Shakers' tins. By this time the whole party were greatly distressed from
loss ...
Indeed, wherever we stopped long enough to do, or get any cooking done, on
our behalf, we always varied our else carnivorous meal by something succulent
from the Shakers' tins. By this time the whole party were greatly distressed from
loss ...
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As often as he turned, they repeated these tactics, until at last he stopped, quite
provoked at himself, and with his horse thoroughly winded, to see their " clean
linen " flash for an instant in the sun, as they went out of sight among some thick ...
As often as he turned, they repeated these tactics, until at last he stopped, quite
provoked at himself, and with his horse thoroughly winded, to see their " clean
linen " flash for an instant in the sun, as they went out of sight among some thick ...
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He once stopped his stage, and steadily gazed into the sky until all the
passengers alighted and began gazing with him. Somebody said, " What's the
matter, driver ? what are you looking at?" — " Can you see the comet ? " rejoined
Trotter ...
He once stopped his stage, and steadily gazed into the sky until all the
passengers alighted and began gazing with him. Somebody said, " What's the
matter, driver ? what are you looking at?" — " Can you see the comet ? " rejoined
Trotter ...
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