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Being desirous of tendering sundry hints and observations to such of my fellow countrymen as may contemplate trips abroad I shall, with their kindly permission, devote this chapter to setting forth briefly the following principles, which apply generally to railroad travel in the Old World.
First -- On the Continent all trains leave at or about seven A. M. and reach their destination at or about eleven P. M. You may be going a long distance or a short one -- it makes no difference; you leave at seven and you arrive at eleven. The few exceptions to this rule are of no consequence and do not count.