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for the West at 10 a.m. after checking or rather telling
the baggage master to Check my trunk to the
city of Chicago, he charged me 25 cts for storage
it gave me the bill of storage, telling me
I could get my trunk in Chicago by presenting
it to the bagge master at thatplace. At this
juncture my mother bide one good by with
many Christians aloud traveling & about [sharthers?]
the train was a fast [enderees?] & in a very short
time I was shimming by the pretty little town of
Bawed which I had left the morning before.
One train stopped in Washington & often a half hour
it started on its western course through the city,
though us [?] when traveling I god "turned around."
& [?] vain endeavors to read a Chicago daily
which I [marchasped?]. I kept looking out the [nordows?]
at the country, which to me seemed entirely unlike
Maryland country & I seemed to be carried south
ward instead of westward, after a few miles of
travel in this state of mind I asked a passing
conductor if I were in Virginia or Maryland
to which he answered very good naturedly "Its
Maryland sir." I was greatly relieved by
this answer & I settled myself back in my
seat trying to imagine to the best of my abi
lities that I was going westward & down south
ward as it really seemed to me. My journey