Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway

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Excerpt from Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway: Or Stories of the Locomotive in Every LandMan is become a bird, he can ¿y longer and quicker than a Solan goose. The mamma rushes sixty miles in two hours, to the aching finger Of her com jugating and declining grammar-boy. The early Scotchman scratches him self in the morning mists Of the North, and has porridge in Piccadilly, before the setting sun. The Puseyite priest, after a rush Of one hundred miles, ap pears with his little volume of nonsense at the breakfast of his bookseller.Everything is near, everything is immediate. - sydney smith.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.