They said "Yes," and "No," but as gently as if
they had always added "Sir." If I have it on my conscience to
except from my sweeping praise of sincerity the expressman at
Aberystwyth who promised that our baggage should be at our
lodgings in an hour, and did not bring it in five, I must add
that we arrived on the last day of a great agricultural fair,
when even the New York Transfer Company might have given a
promise of more than wonted elasticity.
II
In the station of Aberystwyth there were about three or four
thousand Welshmen of the national height, volubly waiting for the
trains to bear them away to their farms and villages; but they
made way most amiably for the dismounting travellers, who in our
case were led through them by the most energetic porter I ever
knew. They did not stare down upon us from the unseemly altitude
of other national statures, and often during our stay I saw like
crowds of civil men in the street markets who were no taller, and
sometimes there were women who had not scaled the heights reached
by our American girls.
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