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'How very English it is,--a little yellow river,--and you call it the sea! Ah;--you never were at Newport!'

'But I've been at San Francisco'

'Yes; you've been at San Francisco, and heard the seals howling Well; that's better than Southend'

'I suppose we do have the sea here in England It's generally supposed we're an island'

'Of course;--but things are so so to the west of Ireland, I suppose you'd find the Atlantic But nobody ever does go there for fear of being on, but said nothing;--thought, perhaps, of his own condition, and re either to Oregon or the west of Ireland 'But ent to Southend, I, and Mrs Pipkin and the baby, and upon my word I enjoyed it She was so afraid that the baby would annoy ht the baby was so much the best of it And then we ate shrie that with us nobody would be so huot all her children, and nothing but what she can s People are just as poor with us;--and other people who happen to be a little better off, pay for them But nobody is humble to another, as you are here Of course we like to have money as well as you do, but it doesn't make so much difference'

'He ants to receive, all the world over, will ive'

'But Mrs Pipkin was so hu, and then I found that you had been here,--at last'

'You knew that I had to go to Liverpool'

'I'et your business done at Liverpool?'

'Yes;--one generally gets so very satisfactorily Of course it's about this railway'

'I should have thought that that was satisfactory Everybody talks of it as being the greatest thing ever invented I wish I was alike that I hate little peddling things I should like to reatest bank in the world, or to be Captain of the biggest fleet, or toPresident of a Republic, because one would have more of one's oay What is it that you do in it, Paul?'