When he brought it home, with the meat he went to get, mother said: “What is the use of the lamp without the chimney?” So he went to purchase a chimney after dinner and coal oil to burn in the lamp. He had to pay two dollars and fifty cents for a chimney, and five dollars for a gallon of coal oil, so our light is rather expensive after all. And thus ends our first day in Virginia City, and brings “Crossing the Plains and Mountains in 1865” to an end. By S. R. H. Transcriber’s Notes This book has no Table of Contents. Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. End of Project Gutenberg's Days on the Road, by Sarah Raymond Herndon