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  [Illustration: THE GREEN TRAVELER,
                [See page 62.]


THE WORLD ON WHEELS AND OTHER SKETCHES

bY

BENJ. F. TAYLOR







Chicago,
S. C. Griggs & Co.
1874

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
S. C. Griggs & Co.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

Printed at the Lakeside Press,
Clark and Adams Sts.,
Chicago.




ONLY THIS:

The Wheels in this book ran, during the summer of 1873, through the
columns of THE NEW YORK EXAMINER AND CHRONICLE, to "the head and front
of whose offending," the

    REV. EDWARD BRIGHT, D.D.,

who gave those wheels "the right of way," the old rolling stock and a
miscellaneous cargo is

    CORDIALLY CONSIGNED.




ROLLING STOCK AND BILL OF LADING.


_THE WORLD ON WHEELS._


CHAPTER.                                                         PAGE.

    I. THE "WHEEL" INSTINCT                                       