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What Answer?

CHAPTER X
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CHAPTER X.
"_Gentlemen, let not prejudice prepossess you._" Izaak Walton Car No.

14, Fifth Street line, Philadelphia, was crowded.

Travelling bags, shawls, and dusters marked that people were making for the 11 A.M.
New York train, Kensington depot.

One pleasant-looking old gentleman whose face shone under a broad brim, and whose cleanly drabs were brought into distasteful proximity with the garments of a drunken coal-heaver, after a vain effort to edge away, relieved his mind by turning to his neighbor with the statement, "Consistency is a jewel." "Undoubtedly true, Mr.Greenleaf," answered the neighbor, "but what caused the remark ?" "That,"-- looking with mild disgust at the dirty and ragged leg sitting by his own.

"Here's this filthy fellow, a nuisance to everybody near him, can ride in these cars, and a nice, respectable colored person can't.


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