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Excerpt from Vacation Days in Europe: Notes of a Trip Abroad
At the pretty little town of Manchester we are to take our sleeper for Chicago, and toward that place we go, on the Illinois Central, over a country water soaked and, in many places, water-covered. It is beautifully green, but it looks very strange to see Iowa corn, whole fields of it, not more than four inches high, so late in the year.
Arrived at Manchester, past fields of drowned corn, we wait for our train for Chicago, and as we walk out to see and thank Conductor Marvin for his help to us, we realize what a beautiful little city Manches ter is with its wide streets, comfortable houses sur rounded by green, its fine trees and lovely roses. Mr. Marvin works. In the dusk, amongst his roses and gives us some most beautiful and fragrant ones as we say good-bye and return to our station across a river as smooth as a mirror, and pink, gold and rose with the sunset. A sweet-faced old lady in the station tells us how she cared for the Union wounded all through the dreadful years of '61. '62, '63 and '64 and how, after the battle of Gettysburg she helped doc tors amputate the limbs and probe the wounds of men who had lain in the drenching rain and hot sun of three summer days, only to face the operating table Without any anaesthetic to deaden their dread ful pain. All the time she talks, a little lad runs about the station crowing happily to himself, all unconscious of the awful suffering through which he entered into his heritage of a great and united: country.
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