cool, and we could look out on the water and a green bank
opposite, and we thought we were going to have such a nice
night; but the authorities changed their minds, and presently
to our deep disgust a locomotive came puffing down the road,
clawed us up, ran us back, and finally left us in the middle of
innumerable tracks and switches just where all the freight
trains came in and met. All night long they were arriving and
going out. Cars loaded with cattle, cars loaded with sheep, with
pigs! Such bleatings and mooings and gruntings, I never heard in
all my life before. I could think of nothing but that verse in
the Psalms, 'Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round,' and
could only hope that the poor animals did not feel half as badly
as they sounded.

"Then long before light, as we lay listening to these lamentable
roarings and grunts, and quite unable to sleep for heat and
noise, came the blessed express, and presently we were away out
of all the din, with the fresh air of the prairie blowing in;
and in no time at all we were so sound asleep that it seemed but
a minute before morning. Phil's slumbers lasted so long that we
had to breakfast without him, for Mrs. Dayton would not let us
wake him up. You can't think how kind she is, and Mr. Dayton
too; and this way of travelling is so easy and delightful that
it scarcely seems to tire one at all. Phil has borne the journey
wonderfully well so far."

At Omaha, on the evening of the second day, Clover's future "matron" and
adviser, Mrs. Watson, was to join them. She had been telegraphed to from
Chicago, and had replied, so that they knew she was expecting them.
Clover's thoughts were so occupied with curiosity as to what she would