APPENDIX XXVI A NOVEL HOLIDAY TRIP

TH E following is reproduced from a Daily News leading article of September 6th, 1876, relative to the Pullman Car Expedition : —

In an age when there is so much money, and such a strong desire for something new in the way of amusements, it is odd that fresh enjoyments are not more frequently invented. We publish to-day an account of a novel diversion which seems to supply what is called by people who are starting periodicals " a felt want." Every one who has ever travelled by railway has regretted the beautiful places and the scenes of interest which he was obliged to pass hurriedly by, without time to study the landscape or the ruins which attracted him. " He that will to Cupar must to Cupar," the Scotch proverb says, especially when he has taken his ticket for that destination. He cannot linger by the way to sketch, or music, or botanize ; and thus he is borne past places which he may never see again. It is possible, of course, to satisfy curiosity by making a walking or driving tour. The pedestrian can stop where he pleases, and take his chance of that terrible process called roughing it. He dines on a tough fowl, or on a trout and eggs and bacon if he is lucky, and perhaps finds linen in lavender at a house like that which Izaak Walton liked to describe, or perhaps, falls in with very different quarters. At best his circuit of travel is very limited ; and though the hardy walker may—and indeed, if he be worthy of the name of an intelligent traveller must—enjoy himself, still his enjoyment will be of the sort which looks best when comtemplated through a hazy distance of time to come. Now, what the wandering student gathers of amusement and instruction, as he trudges along with his knapsack, many people would like to obtain on a much larger scale. Their circle of wandering would not be bounded by thirty miles a day ; they would, perhaps, wish to compare places two hundred miles apart. They would leave Perth in the morning, say, and spend the afternoon in some lovely hill-side of the