Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street

CHAPTER I

STEPPING WESTWARD

"_What, you are stepping westward?_"--"_Yea._" --'Twould be a wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange Land, and far from home, Were in this place the guests of Chance: Yet who would stop or fear to advance, Though home or shelter he had none, With such a sky to lead him on?

--WORDSWORTH.

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