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always called John when a boy, the men
gradually got into the habit of calling him
‘Mr. John.’ And now that was the name
he always went by.

“Mr. Naylor then said that he had an
application from a great rail-road company to
superintend the construction of a rail-road,
and it would be necessary for some one to
go out to England, and purchase the iron
rails, and chains, and iron for spikes, and
also the locomotives, and to examine the
foreign manufactories, so as to be able to
manufacture cars and locomotives in their
own machine shop, when he should get
home again.

“Mr. John said he should like to go very
much indeed; Mr. Naylor said his expenses
would be paid out of the profits of the busi-
hess. Mr. John had laid up a good deal of
money of his own, and he fitted himself out
with plenty of good, comfortable clothes and
drawing instruments, and every thing else
that he thought he should need.

“He travelled to New York in the stage,
and took passage in a Liverpool packet. He
went down to the packet in a steamboat on
the day of sailing, and when the steamboat