I felt that it was unwillingly given, and, as like begets like, it was very unwillingly received.

Honestly, I felt as if I had made a bad bargain, and was keen to rue the trade.

I did not know what to do with it; but, anyhow, I thought I would make the best of a bad bargain.

I got on the cars at Dalton--now, here is a thing that I had long since forgotten about--it was the first first-class passenger car that I had been in since I had been a soldier.

The conductor passed around, and handed me a ticket with these words on it: "If you wish to travel with ease, Keep this ticket in sight, if you please; And if you wish to take a nap, Just stick this in your hat or cap." This was the poetry, reader, that was upon the ticket.