As there was no smoking-car, we were constrained to enter another; and off we started.

At first, the atmosphere was bearable; but soon, alas! too soon, every window was closed; the stove glowed red-hot; the tough-hided natives gathered round it, and, deluging it with expectorated showers of real Virginian juice, the hissing and stench became insufferable.

I had no resource but to open my window, and let the driving sleet drench one side of me, while the other was baking; thus, one cheek was in an ice-house, and the other in an oven.

At noon we came to "a fix;" the railway bridge across to Harrisburg had broken down.

There was nothing for it but patience; and, in due time, it was rewarded by the arrival of three omnibuses and a luggage-van.