Excerpt from Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway: Or Stories of the Locomotive in Every Land Man is become a bird; he can fly longer and quicker than a Solan goose. The mamma rushes sixty miles in two hours, to the aching finger Of her com jugating and declining grammar-boy. The early Scotchman scratches him self in the morning mists Of the North, and has porridge in Piccadilly, before the setting sun. The Puseyite priest, after a rush Of one hundred miles, ap pears with his little volume of nonsense at the breakfast of his bookseller. Everything is near, everything is immediate. - sydney smith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.