The coming of the railway has been reflected in. the Immadiate cessation ff heavy gramme along the motor roads, Which still remain in fair condition wherever the railway Me has not absorbed them. Two years ngo these toads had a constant stream of trafic "pedestrians, cyclists, rickshaws and bures—nowea-days only the cyclists are at all numerous, No-one will regret the disappearance of the motor buses with their bone-shaking per formance and irregular schedules.
Their ehlet merit. was the distance covered per day, which sometimes. feomed a poor offest for the high fares charged the travailer, the clouds of dust which smothered him, and the aching limbs and sore head with: Which he, "sometimes ended the Journey, The rickshaw coolles have found work at the railway Stations and elsewhere. Shansi_ was unusual In the Inrge number of remit. and overburdened rickshaws ised {o carry freight, Three bales fof cotton, totalling GOOIb, or a dozen tins of Kerosene would be strapped on to these ancient vehicles fore and aft, and with these tremendous Toads the pullers would toll up hill and down dale for hundreds of miles.
'A picturesque feature of the countrysido whose passing cannot, but be regretted is that of the strings of camels which every winter used swinging their way north with bales" of cotton heaving on their seragay., weather-beaten sides, more shall we soe them sitting by the wayside, grinning ridiculously, and patiently walting for something to turn up. No more shall we hear the camel bells ringing through the dusk of a clear winter evening, og they set oft for their night's Jaunt "over the hills and far away. But perhaps the camel-drover will not regret the pasting of those long cold winter hights when custom demanded he should take his charges on their way deference to the more prosaic (ramie which travels by daylight.
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