Across the Plains

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Title:	Across the Plains
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


Citation APA MLA Chicago Louis Stevenson, B. R. (n.d.). Across the Plains. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
Excerpt: MONDAY. It was, if I remember rightly, five o'clock when we were all signaled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to travel. There was babel of bewildered men, women, and children. The wretched little booking-office, and the baggage-room, which was not much larger, were crowded thick with emigrants, and were heavy and rank with the atmosphere of dripping clothes. Open carts full of bedding stood by the half-hour in the rain. The officials loaded each other with recriminations. A bearded, mildewed little man, whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place, his mouth full of brimstone, blustering and interfering. It was plain that the whole system, if system there was, had utterly broken down under the strain of so many passengers.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: I. Across The Plains -- II. The Old Pacific Capital -- III. Fontainebleau -- IV. Epilogue to An Inland Voyage -- V. Random Memories -- VI. Random Memories Continued -- VII. The Lantern-bearers -- VIII. A Chapter on Dreams -- IX. Beggars -- X. Letter to a Young Gentleman -- XI. Pulvis et Umbra -- XII. A Christmas Sermon