Travelogues; . THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY 261 Departures are announced by the ringing of a big bell atthe station. We soon learn not to be startled by the firstring, for it means merely that it is time to begin to thinkabout beginning to commence to get ready to prepare to and by comes another clap or two, just to remind usthat the bell has rung before. Then finally after we havestepped aboard at the polite personal request of the numer-ous employees, a final, ultimate, and authoritative clang. AT A STATION announces that something is really going to happen, by andby.
Travelogues; . THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY 261 Departures are announced by the ringing of a big bell atthe station. We soon learn not to be startled by the firstring, for it means merely that it is time to begin to thinkabout beginning to commence to get ready to prepare to and by comes another clap or two, just to remind usthat the bell has rung before. Then finally after we havestepped aboard at the polite personal request of the numer-ous employees, a final, ultimate, and authoritative clang. AT A STATION announces that something is really going to happen, by andby. And sure enough, after a shrill blast from the whistleof the station-master, a toot from the horn of the switchman,and a squeak from the locomotive, the Trans-Siberian flyerdoes move at last, and before long we are once more outof sight of land, encircled by the wide horizon of limitlessSiberia. There is nothing in sight except distance, bisectedby the straight and seemingly endless line of the track. 262 THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY We seem to be farfrom this Hne ofsteel marks a newroute around theworld ; we neverlose this thought,— a thought thatshrinks this oldworld of ours andmakes of it a ballso small that wealmost arrive at aconception of it inits entirety. De-spite the seeminglevelness of thisvast plain of Si-beria, we are con-scious in some way
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