Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . Peking Cakts on Rough Roads. River Ferry Ix A Peking Cart 5S ered. Even the long nails which fastened therims on the wheels, and which dug their bris-tling heads into the ground, stirred no crit-icism. It was only the ner^^ous Westernerwho objected. Meanwhile the two carts and the tworiders traveled steadily away from the cap-ital city out toward the borders of the royalprovince of Chih-li, southeast in the directionof Shan-tung. It was a long journey thesewayfarers had planned, and stout must bethe nerves and courage of him who endures
Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . Peking Cakts on Rough Roads. River Ferry Ix A Peking Cart 5S ered. Even the long nails which fastened therims on the wheels, and which dug their bris-tling heads into the ground, stirred no crit-icism. It was only the ner^^ous Westernerwho objected. Meanwhile the two carts and the tworiders traveled steadily away from the cap-ital city out toward the borders of the royalprovince of Chih-li, southeast in the directionof Shan-tung. It was a long journey thesewayfarers had planned, and stout must bethe nerves and courage of him who enduresto the end. It was like Mary Porter, like theventuresome girl of old, to start unhesita-tingly upon a trip never before attempted bya woman. Once, in the Peking compound, shewrote a letter home in which were thesewords: I refuse to acknowledge that thereis anything I ought to do which I cannot hundred miles of travel in a Pekingcart was a formidable prospect even to thestrongest man, but with the call of duty inher ears, it could and should be done. Herfellow travelers were
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