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. Chicago by day and night. hats and gratu-itously wishing you a pleasant voyage homeas you speed away. The drive back? Well, the pleasure there-of always depends upon circumstances. If thatpleasant possibility before hinted at is an actu-ality—why, what is the use of picturing it?Have we not all, as it were, been there before?But the whispering breeze, the ceaseless mur-mur of the wavelets on the shore and the sameold moon smiling so persistently and blandly(iown—form delicious adjuncts to an experiencethat once enjoyed will not soon be spirited horses still tug lustily at the l
. Chicago by day and night. hats and gratu-itously wishing you a pleasant voyage homeas you speed away. The drive back? Well, the pleasure there-of always depends upon circumstances. If thatpleasant possibility before hinted at is an actu-ality—why, what is the use of picturing it?Have we not all, as it were, been there before?But the whispering breeze, the ceaseless mur-mur of the wavelets on the shore and the sameold moon smiling so persistently and blandly(iown—form delicious adjuncts to an experiencethat once enjoyed will not soon be spirited horses still tug lustily at the lines,but they are homeward bound and you can affordthem a little latitude if the supposititious com-panion seems to demand a little more of yourattention than she did on the outward journey. 1/6 Pshaw! What does it all matter? It is onlya few hours of pleasure, after all; yet I thinkyou will confess to me, as your horses trot backover the Rush street bridge, that it has beenan ideal afternoon. CHAPTER XXL ON THE THE part LakeMichigan will play inthe transportation ofpeople to and fromthe Worlds FairGrounds has not atthis writing (May, 1892)been definitely deter-mined upon. It is be-yond question, how-ever, that some proper arrangement in this di-rection will have been made long before theFair opens, for it would seem highly impossi-ble that the great facilities for water transpor-tation should not be properly utilized. For some reason or other aquatic sports andpleasures have not flourished in Chicago asthey should, considering the immense advan-tages in that direction that are lying, as it were,at our very doors. Some people attribute thesmall interest of the average Chicagoan inaquatics to the unstable character of the greatsheet of water known as Lake Michigan—anunstability which is shown sometimes in the 1/8 quick gathering of storms. The lake may beshining like a sheet of glass one hour, and inthe next heaving tumultuously under theinfluence of a squall. This
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