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This trip may not be of especial interest to any but those who arc concerned in it.
J...et us take for our time the twentieth of December and the place as Union Station, Lynchburg. The two-twenty from the West is just pulling in.
As the train stops, I cease noticing my surroundings and strn~glcvalia11tly for a seat. Big Dud whispers coyly in my £':\r that snch confusion may be avoided by taking passage in the Pullman. I yield to tcmptatiou, and follow my leader who 11early breaks his neck several times by looking at fem- inine passengers instead of looking at their suitcases in the aisle.
At last we reach tho Pullman and having extended onr greetings to Jolm IIenry 1Iaclin, wl1om we discovered just across tho aisle, settling down to read Snappy St01'ies, we take our scats. In due time our fare is collected and Dud, ha,·ing surveyed all the fair sex in sight, suggests that we go
for an expedition towards the front of the train.
\Yhilo Dnd was preoccupied with the feminine scenery, I happened to notice our 1·evorend friend, :Mr. Gwathmey,
swamped with papers of his late exams. and wielding a red pencil ferociously. \Ve pass on to the smoker and upon open- ing the door I nearly expired from the fumes of cheap Per- fectos. Through the haze I caught sight of Allen, Lynch Armistead and \Voodward, each maintaining his own against a big black cigRr. We tany here a while and add a few clouds of 3moke to those already present.
In the Ycstibule we find Darst, Braxton and Sharman en- gaged in a rather one-sided conversation. Darst was tho
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