say, "This isn't your end of the train; besides, can't you see the
poor gentleman's pretty well dying?" And he does hurry them off, and
pack them in somewhere or other, but whether to their satisfaction or
not, it is easier to hazard a guess than faithfully to record.

6. Bolchester is reached, and you are formally introduced to your
final guarding and protecting angel, who rapidly takes in the
situation, and by an assurance that he will see to your comfort,
this, accompanied by a slightly perceptible wink, leaves you in happy
expectation, which the result justifies, of reaching your destination
uninvaded.

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THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.

NO. V. Scene--_Upper deck of the Rhine Steamer, König
Wilhelm, somewhere between Bonn and Bingen. The little
tables on deck are occupied by English, American, and German
tourists, drinking various liquids, from hock to Pilsener
beer, and eating veal-cutlets. Mr. CYRUS K. TROTTER is on
the lower deck, discussing the comparative merits of the New
York hotels with a fellow countryman. Miss MAUD S. TROTTER
is seated on the after-deck in close conversation with
CULCHARD. PODBURY _is perched on a camp-stool in the forward
part. Near him a British Matron, with a red-haired son, in
a green and black blazer, and a blue flannel nightcap, and a
bevy of rabbit-faced daughters, are patronising a tame German
Student in spectacles, who speaks a little English._