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city to city, visiting great manufacturing
establishments, and curious and wonderful
public works. He was well supplied with
money, and had the dress and manners of
a gentleman, so that he was well received
wherever he went.

‘After spending some time in London, he
went to France, and travelled through that
country to Marseilles. There he set sail for
home, in a large ship loaded with silks.
There were a great many sailors on board
this ship, and among the rest there was a
Jack here too. He was at work coiling
away ropes, when Mr. John came aboard.
Mr. John looked at him as he always did
when he saw a sailor named Jack; but he
looked no more like his old playmate than
the dozen other Jacks that he had seen.

‘“Mr. John came down to the ship, with
his trunks and boxes in a cart behind.”

“With the locomotives in ’em?” said
Rollo.

“O, no,” said Jonas, “they were too big
to go so. He had shipped all his locomo-
tives and iron rails from Liverpool. These
boxes contained only some valuable books,
and instruments of various kinds, which he

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