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Show In the saafortaale old days in the United States, e%ea I might aaa say tyr,e<?riter to ay heart's content da th« table in my section in B sleeping ear, what solid seafort I took. that is peraftted no mora. The Conductor, ./ho broke this aaas to iue> did not mind itajfc a l l hli'iapll,£ . He said 30; and waited until he s,aa n,- withdraw a completed l e t t e r hefirO ni spoke, Ke said there raa aiaaya safig shiaya easpi&iniBj passenger, who t.lthar did not know hew to type, or who had left his "portable* at hoae, /rho ifdald lass about the noise sad proceed to get 4 headache. An ay private ear aoa there eas no ene la object! A -v.ilckly improvised lap taMa - e large book - fco ehich my machine was tied with a s t r i p of cloth, hni I was ready for btttsiness. How well 1 r e c a l l the sentence I had just written - that if arhea Cooper long ago arete - HKQ wa runs may read"- he'd had a Corona, ha tttaJi have said, He who rides may o t l f f l I did not continue just titan, for " thereby h*?.n<*s a tale" - - - Z I | Mrg» u~~~*»*m outfit was ahe&d. In a village we had passed through eur men consulted some very sensible locking men. tfhat #&§ s&U we did net know, but w® tenm that these villagers pointed to a road going around the erass-cwt route cur iren seemed bent up en taking, and that, in spit© of their protests, our wen seat on as they had planned tc go. I aa also quits- £ure that the route aa tape taking was the one as had taken t*o months be« fore shea se game in saris, but then the fields -fere dry. It saved a t r i f l e in distance. But aoa, after the samae? rains, i t sas 1 different matter. Our stubborn pilots a'eat their •way. Suddenly Mrs. --- ! s leal mule e*S urged over a dike placed there shas irrigation wae necessary. The drivers, who always wall: by the side of the l i t t e r , have I comical fashion cf hopping on the shafts shea they aaproash B soft spat, tc avoid getting muddy. Ac i t seamed damp, her aaa had fast given one bound ahieh leaded hiss astride the poles! I t ass fanny, but there .fere other distractions just then, as the dike had penned\in * plentiful supply of rain eater- Into the pool her beast splashed, Flipped-.and ms in over his back. Her trunk's veArAt dragged tad halted her equipage on the dike, "hi?h and dry.n There ems no sense in ay teas being driven UTJ to risk the same experience, tut my protests were in viin, as the other aaleteer sailed +0 my man that i t aould be quite a} i rirht Vor my team to be drl-en beridc the fSrst one. H«-ve I not said these men can be stubborn? Over aunged t y s s l t end instantly he ea* elsioet ir*m*t in the lake. My typewriter raa barely rescue from taking » divei The cover of mf c h i c l e swayed and nearly lav « Ha side, but s wriggle of ay strunfling mule righted i t , aa* I , tea, B«B seated on the dike, thanks tu «y trunk. f« just had -o laugh at cur silly predicament* *« aeaid only see eacn otner by peering round our fuany suh-bonnet-like canopies, but found ae could atea out on the dike and get together. " P +u ^J^in*** hit^ *• «** their cloth shoes eat, but the men aal to set riam lawn ieta Toll %rBBCUB *" f °f SU^< •"• **" W - A - bad to be t a i n ouf f r t 4 e ; L , = ! K aa;r„a.."'A; ;c ° 7;,aiaa/sa ira:: r-ss r t..i. ,«s xr±e.i to figure out aaa ae could run awa*- ah^a-i v*v.«. m,4« I - dikes, and se^ed to manage without - , t k ! ! \ ! ' . T 0 h i t i e s e ' ^ r « slicing did no? ,r,Psai t0 „,,*;;»*;r; i:&t*t™ c^*: A. i L ' S r h^f-th'sir heishth- ** get us out. " ****&* who had gotten us late this- s c r ^ s to .nd L°iL°d J - i s ^ r s ^ i s - s rwrMs 1^ •" *«• ** «™- B-aei in to aave yo„; he ^ ^ ^ S ^ ^ ^ » 1 & » ^ i * , S « B |