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A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
THE rain was falling on the dirty pavements of Liverpool as Jerome left the vessel after her arrival.

Passing the custom-house, he took a cab, and proceeded to Brown's Hotel, Clayton Square.
Finding no employment in Liverpool, Jerome determined to go into the interior and seek for work.

He, therefore, called for his bill, and made ready for his departure.

Although but four days at the Albion, he found the hotel charges larger than he expected; but a stranger generally counts on being "fleeced" in travelling through the Old World, and especially in Great Britain.