The World on Wheels and Other Sketches

About this eBook

Author

Taylor, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1819-1887

Title

The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Travel -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44745

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44745

Release Date

January 24, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WORLD ON WHEELS AND OTHER SKETCHES
2. 2.CHAPTER I. THE "WHEEL" INSTINCT.
3. 3.CHAPTER II. THE CONCORD COACH.
4. 4.CHAPTER III. THE RAGING CANAL.
5. 5.CHAPTER IV. THE IRON AGE.
6. 6.CHAPTER V. THE IRON HORSE.
7. 7.CHAPTER VI. PLUNGING INTO THE WILDERNESS.
8. 8.CHAPTER VII. VICIOUS ANIMALS.
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII. HABITS OF ENGINES AND TRAIN MEN.
10. 10.CHAPTER IX. IN THE SADDLE.
11. 11.CHAPTER X. RACING AND PLOWING.
12. 12.CHAPTER XI. SNOW-BOUND.
13. 13.CHAPTER XII. SCALDED TO DEATH.
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII. ALL ABOARD!
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV. EARLY AND LATE.
16. 16.CHAPTER XV. DEAD HEADS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI. WORKING "BY THE DAY."
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII. A SLANDERER AND A WEATHER MAKER.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII. DREAMING ON THE CARS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX. "MEET ME BY MOONLIGHT."
21. 21.CHAPTER XX. THE MAKER OF CITIES.
22. 22.CHAPTER XXI. A CABOOSE RIDE.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXII. HATCHING OUT A WOMAN.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXIII. A FLANK MOVEMENT.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIV. LIGHT AND SHADE.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXV. PRECIOUS CARGOES.
27. 27.CHAPTER I. MY STARRY DAYS.
28. 28.CHAPTER II. "No. 104,163."
29. 29.CHAPTER III. OUR OLD GRANDMOTHER.
30. 30.CHAPTER IV. OUT-DOOR PREACHING.
31. 31.CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF THE BELL.
32. 32.CHAPTER VI. "MY EYE!"
33. 33.CHAPTER VII. THE OLD ROAD.
34. 34.CHAPTER VIII. A BIRD HEAVEN.

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