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Adventures and Letters

CHAPTER V
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His fresh point of view, his very eagerness to understand theirs, made them welcome him more as one of their own people than as a stranger.
LONDON, June 3, 1892.
DEAR FAMILY: I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

It is SO like these people never to have seen it.

It seems to be chiefly composed of costermongers and Americans.

I got a box-seat on a public coach and went out at ten.

We rode for three hours in a procession of donkey shays, omnibuses, coaches, carriages, vans, advertising wagons; every sort of conveyance stretching for sixteen miles, and with people lining the sides to look on.


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