train. The fact that there were two railroads and two companies was
the reason why each passenger had two tickets.

Stuyvesant wondered whether the baggage men would remember to transfer
his trunk to the new train, without his attending to it, but as he
observed that the other passengers did nothing about their trunks, but
went at once into the new cars, he concluded that he had nothing to do
but follow their example.

When he arrived at Boston it was very late. This was owing to a
detention which took place on the road through a somewhat singular
cause. It seems that there was in one part of the road a very narrow
_cut_, through a rocky hill, and the company were attempting to widen
it in order to make a double track. They had accordingly been blasting
the rocks on one side of the cut, and having fired a very heavy charge
just before the train that Stuyvesant was in came along, an immense
mass of rocks had fallen down into the cut and covered the track so
that the train could not get by. The workman had accordingly sent a
man along with a red flag to stop the train when it should come, and
in the mean time they went to work with an enormous crane, which was
set up on the rocks above, to hoist the stones off from the track, and
swing them out of the way. A great many of the passengers got out and
went forward when the train stopped, in order to see this operation;
and Stuyvesant felt himself authorized by Beechnut's rule to go with
them. It took more than half an hour to raise and remove the rocks so
as to clear the track, and Stuyvesant had a very pleasant time in
watching the operation, and in listening to the remarks of the men
who were standing around.

On account of this delay, and of some subsequent delays which were
caused by this one, it was quite late when the train arrived in
Boston. When the cars at length reached the Boston station and the
passengers began to get out, a great scene of noise and confusion
ensued.

"Now," said Stuyvesant to himself, "I must obey the first part of
Beechnut's direction, and keep a quiet mind."

He accordingly rose from his seat, and taking his carpet-bag in his
hand he went out with the rest of the passengers. There was a great
crowd of hackmen on the platform, all clamorously shouting together to
the passengers, offering their carriages and calling out the names of
the several hotels. Stuyvesant observed that those before him who
wished for a hack would quietly speak to o