CHAPTER II.
The first thing we did on that glad evening that landed us at St.Joseph was to hunt up the stage-office, and pay a hundred and fifty dollars apiece for tickets per overland coach to Carson City, Nevada.
The next morning, bright and early, we took a hasty breakfast, and hurried to the starting-place.

Then an inconvenience presented itself which we had not properly appreciated before, namely, that one cannot make a heavy traveling trunk stand for twenty-five pounds of baggage -- because it weighs a good deal more.

But that was all we could take -- twenty-five pounds each.

So we had to snatch our trunks open, and make a selection in a good deal of a hurry.

We put our lawful twenty-five pounds apiece all in one valise, and shipped the trunks back to St.Louis again.