Book Excerpt: ...ll I pocketed the extra money which I had assured him he need not spend for the first-class ticket.The huge station, with its glaring lights and clanging bells, and the outspreading city, soon gave place to prairie land.That night I slept little, but the very time I wanted to be awake--when we crossed the Mississippi--I was slumbering soundly, and so missed it."I'll bet I don't miss it coming back," I vowed.The sight of the Missouri, however, somewhat repaid me for the loss. What a muddy, wide river! And I thought of the thousands of miles of country it drained, and of the forests there must be at its source. Then came the never-ending Kansas corn-fields. I do not know whether it was their length or their treeless monotony, but I grew tired looking at them.From then on I began to take some notice of my fellow-travelers. The conductor proved to be an agreeable old fellow; and the train-boy, though I mistrusted his advances because he tried to sell me everything from chewing-gum to mini...
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