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that I was in the unfortunate plight of being without money—    I expostulated with the good woman  told her I had no money — I knew old grandfathers who told stories of bridges and their toll - But never expected to meet with one - That woman the gatekeeper was impossible
I asked her to let me pass, but no "Nineteen miles to the south I could 

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find a railroad bridge which I might crawl across for nothing.  That would be impossible so at last I made a deal by which I was allowed to pass on leaving my suspenders as security for two-pence or tuppence.

Just think of that, in the twentieth Century.—

Two days afterwards Williston rode over and secured the braces after the woman signing the