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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.