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MP3 Audio CD. A Railway Journey - from The Day Before Yesterday (in 1912: Short Works Collection ) I SUPPOSE that when little boys made their journeys by coach with David Copperfield or Tom Brown and his pea-shooting com- rades they did in truth find adventure easier to achieve than we who were born in an age of railways. But though the rarer joys of far travel by road were denied us, it did not need Mr. Rudyard Kipling in a didactic mood to convince us that there was plenty of romance in railway journeys if you approached them in the right spirit. We were as fond of playing at trains as most small boys, and a stationary engine with the light of the furnace glowing on the grim face of the driver was a disquieting feature of all my nightmares. So when the grown- up people announced that one of us was to make a long journey young Ulysses became for the moment an envied and enchanted figure. Our periodical excursions to London were well enough in their way ; noisy, jolly parties in…
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MP3 Audio CD. A Railway Journey - from The Day Before Yesterday (in 1912: Short Works Collection ) I SUPPOSE that when little boys made their journeys by coach with David Copperfield or Tom Brown and his pea-shooting com- rades they did in truth find adventure easier to achieve than we who were born in an age of railways. But though the rarer joys of far travel by road were denied us, it did not need Mr. Rudyard Kipling in a didactic mood to convince us that there was plenty of romance in railway journeys if you approached them in the right spirit. We were as fond of playing at trains as most small boys, and a stationary engine with the light of the furnace glowing on the grim face of the driver was a disquieting feature of all my nightmares. So when the grown- up people announced that one of us was to make a long journey young Ulysses became for the moment an envied and enchanted figure. Our periodical excursions to London were well enough in their way ; noisy, jolly parties in…
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