Word: train
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tell you as soon as I can make myself presentable. Well," continued he in a moment or two, "you know I went to Boscos. That village has particular charms for me just at present, and perhaps you can guess why I lingered and lingered until the last train had gone and my only hope was to catch the express as it stops for a moment at Boscos bridge. It was a breathless and stilly night, the tide at its flood but as calm as a lake, reflecting myriads of stars, that seemed arrayed in full force to act as proxy...
...faint hum ! a louder and a louder whir! A blaze of light, a screech, a stop, and I am conscious that the express is there, and has pulled up but for a moment. Blinded by the glare, still half in dreamland and wholly confused, I spring upon the train The wheels once more revolve, and I turn to go in, - no door! I rub my eyes, and discover, but too late, that I am between the tender and the baggage-car, with no refuge on either side; get into the car I cannot; to climb over the piled-up wood...
...Little by little the pile of wood on the tender was diminished, and finally one of the attendant gnomes, peering over it, caught sight of me. He disappeared for a minute, and then two heads peeped over the pile. The train was at once slowed down, and one of my discoverers dragged me roughly and unceremoniously through the side door into the baggage-car, where the conductor, baggage-master, expressman, and a dummy were playing cards on an upturned trunk...
...illness; Mr. Brewster took his place, and played remarkably well. For Yale, Lamb, Ives, and Borie did the most service, while for Harvard De Windt, Clark, and Atkinson distinguished themselves. A dinner was given the Yale men, after which they left for home on the nine-o'clock train...
...trip home by moonlight was delightful. The Club had a special train as far as South Braintree, connecting there with the main line. On the regular train they fell in with the Swedish male quartette, who sang delightfully. Farewell songs were sung in the station at Boston before an enthusiastic audience of policemen, brakemen, and conductors, and the Club then disbanded. We give the programme: "Three Glasses," Fischer; Solo, by Mr. Morse; "Serenade," A. E. Marschner; Trio, by Messrs. Apthorp, Deane, and Munroe; "The Three Chafers," H. Truhn; "Water-Lily," Fr. Abt; Trio, by Messrs. Apthorp, Deane, and Munroe; "Evening...