Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange EventsBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Legends -- England -- Yorkshire; Yorkshire (England) -- Miscellanea
Being, however, informed that the fly waggons had ceased travelling
since all goods were forwarded by train, it occurred to her that perhaps
she might get conveyed cheaper by luggage train. Accordingly she went to
the railway station, and applied at the offices of Pickford and other
carriers, telling them of her wish to travel by the fly waggons, but as
they were superseded by the luggage trains, she thought they might take
passengers along with the goods in the same way as was formerly done by
the waggons. The clerks and porters told her they could not do anything
of the sort; there were regular passenger trains, and she could not go
by any other. She said she could scarcely afford to travel in that way,
and begged to be allowed to go with the goods. But her labour was in
vain, and much to the satisfaction of her thoroughly-ashamed companion,
she was obliged to relinquish her hopes, and return to her lodgings,
fatigued, dispirited, and abusing everybody she had met with.
On the following morning she reluctantly consented to take the train as
far as Northallerton. When she arrived there several hours were spent in
similar fruitless attempts to procure a conveyance to Darlington.
Finding her efforts were useless, she began to consider that the expense
of lodgings would be incurred if they remained there much longer, and
she then determined to take the last train at night for Darlington, at
which station they arrived about ten o'clock. Proceeding towards the
town, they inquired where they could get a decent private lodging, and
were directed to an old couple, with whom they spent the night and next
day till the conveyance they had chosen was ready to depart.
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