TRAVELLERS' DISCOMFORTS.
Travelling on a Russian line, and feeling asphyxiated by the heat of the carriage, I had, in my innocence, let down the windows on both sides. Instantly a guard rushed up and closed one, that on the side from which the infioitesmal air that existed happened to be blowing. I protested. The guard expressed horror ; there would be a draught, he explained. X hastened to, assure him that that was exactly what I most wished to bring about, and made as though to re-open the window which he had closed. But this the guard would not permit. I should catch cold, he said, and the company could not think of allowing its passengers to catch cold. I protested, but in vain, and eventually I went to stand upon the balcony outside. But, alas ! this also, it appeared, was not permissible just at present, and that for a peculiar reason! a.traiD conveying come member of the Imperial Family was to meet us presently, and no man might stand outside until it had safely passed. In the end I was compelled to return to the stifling carriage, wherein I was cooked to a turn by the time I reached my destination. — Fred. Wishaw, in Longman's Magazine.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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206TRAVELLERS' DISCOMFORTS. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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