Excerpt from Kate Carnegie All night, express trains, whose ordinary forma tion had been reinforced by horse-boxes, carriage trucks, saloons, and luggage-vans, drawn by two engines, and pushed up inclines by a third, had been careering along the three iron trunk roads that run from London to the N orth. F our hours ago they had forced the Border, that used to be more jealously guarded, and had begun to con verge on their terminus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.