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[[start page]] [[underline]] Nov. [[/underline]] [[underline]] 1867 [[/underline]] " The occupants of the latter looked at him in surprise & he returned their glance with some embarrassment - They had not gone far before a second vehicle was seen rapidly driving after the coach, wh. was hailed a second time. What now said the driver. I have a warrant for a man in your coach was the reply. [[strikethrough]] replies [[/strikethrough]] Everybody looked at Father as a suspicious individual but a slumbering man at his side was claimed instead. Told us too of his ride on a new steam carriage in Boston. It was a prettily fitted up affair. The boiler under the seat & the fuel in a [[trunk?]] strapped behind. He mounted [[into?]] the seat with the gentleman who owned it and away they went like the [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underline]] Nov. [[/underline]] [[underline]] 1867 [[/underline]] wind past all the horses who were exceedingly amazed & frightened too to see their work done by nothing, the spirit if anything of a horse barked at by dogs, astonishing by nonplus. Through the streets of Boston & out upon the highway where their career was stopped by the breaking of a pipe. A tall seated express wagon was hailed & Father mounted into it returning home in not quite as magnificent style as he went out. I have had a good day. I like Thanksgiving day. I always feel ^[[insertion]] then [[/insertion]] like God's pet-child, as if I had more than anyone else. 30th Busy today with Carry in making some fern hills for the conservatory out of stones moss &c. I think they will be very pretty. It is raining fast. [[end page]]