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Here are the quotations for the coming week, August 27th to September 2nd. They are all to do with journeys. 1. …Three bold and experienced men - cool, confident, and dry when they began; white, quivering, and wet when they finished their trick at those terrible wheels - swung her over the great lift from Albuquerque to Glorietta and beyond Springer, up and up to the Raton Tunnel on the State line, whence they dropped rocking into La Junta, had sight of the Arkansaw, and tore down the long slope to Dodge City ... 2. He scratched with a twig on the earth. 'Look ! They should have come in by Srinagar or Abbotabad. Thatt is their short road - down the rive by Bunji and Astor. But they have made mischief in the West. So ' - he drew a furrow from left to right - 'they march and they march away East to Leh (ah! it is cold there) and down the Indus to Hanle … and then down, you see, to Bushahr and Chini valley… 3. We took the old war trail from the end of the Lake along the East Susquehanna through the Nantego country, right down to Fort Shamokin on the Senachse river. We crossed the Juniata by Fort Granville, got into Shippensberg over the hills by the Ochwick trail, and then to Williams Ferry … across the Shanedore, over the Blue Mountains, through Ashby's Gap, and so south-east by south from there, till we found the President at the back of his own plantations... ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________ Last week's rather sombre quotations were all from 'Life's Handicap': 1. 'Little Tobrah' 2. 'Through the fire' 3. 'At the end of the passage' Best regards to all, John R %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%