MR. PIPS HIS DIARY.
A Raylway Statyon. Showynge ye Travellers Refreshynge Themselves.
[Tueſday, July 31, 1849.]
PREVAILED upon by my Wife to carry her to Bath, as ſhe laid, to go ſee her Aunt Dorothy, but I know ſhe looked more to the Pleaſure of her Trip than any Thing elſe; nevertheless I do think it neceſſary Policy to keep in with her Aunt, who is an and hath a pretty Fortune; and to ſee what Court and Attention I pay her though I do not care 2d. about her! But am mightily troubled to know whether ſhe hath ſunk her Money in an Annuity, which makes me ſomewhat uneaſy at the Charge of our Journey, for what with bare, Cab Hire, and Vails to Dorothy's Servants for their good Word, it did coſt me altogether £6 2s. 6d. To the Great Weſtern Station in a Cab, by Reaſon of our Luggage; for my Wife muſt needs take ſo many Trunks and Bandboxes, as is always the Way with Women: or elſe we might have gone there for 1s. 6d. leſs in an Omnibus. Did take our Places in the Friſt Claſs notwithftanding the Expenſe, preferring both the Seats and the Company; and alſo becauſe if any Necks or Limbs are broken I note it is generally in the Second and Third Claſſes so weſettled, and the Carriage-Doors ſlammed to, and the Bell rung, the Train with a Whiſtle off like a Shot, and in the Carriage with me and my Wife a mighty pretty Lady, a Frenchwoman, and I did begin to talk French with her, which my Wife do not well underſtand, and by and by did
