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"
Why
,
no
,
"
said
Mr
.
Smooth
-
it
-
away
,
with
a
dry
cough
.
"
He
was
offered
the
situation
of
brakeman
;
but
,
to
tell
you
the
truth
,
our
friend
Greatheart
has
grown
preposterously
stiff
and
narrow
in
his
old
age
.
He
has
so
often
guided
pilgrims
over
the
road
on
foot
that
he
considers
it
a
sin
to
travel
in
any
other
fashion
.
Besides
,
the
old
fellow
had
entered
so
heartily
into
the
ancient
feud
with
Prince
Beelzebub
that
he
would
have
been
perpetually
at
blows
or
ill
language
with
some
of
the
prince
’
s
subjects
,
and
thus
have
embroiled
us
anew
.
So
,
on
the
whole
,
we
were
not
sorry
when
honest
Greatheart
went
off
to
the
Celestial
City
in
a
huff
and
left
us
at
liberty
to
choose
a
more
suitable
and
accommodating
man
.
Yonder
comes
the
engineer
of
the
train
.
You
will
probably
recognize
him
at
once
.
"
The
engine
at
this
moment
took
its
station
in
advance
of
the
cars
,
looking
,
I
must
confess
,
much
more
like
a
sort
of
mechanical
demon
that
would
hurry
us
to
the
infernal
regions
than
a
laudable
contrivance
for
smoothing
our
way
to
the
Celestial
City
.
On
its
top
sat
a
personage
almost
enveloped
in
smoke
and
flame
,
which
,
not
to
startle
the
reader
,
appeared
to
gush
from
his
own
mouth
and
stomach
as
well
as
from
the
engine
’
s
brazen
abdomen
.
"
Do
my
eyes
deceive
me
?
"
cried
I
.
"
What
on
earth
is
this
!
A
living
creature
?
If
so
,
he
is
own
brother
to
the
engine
he
rides
upon
!
"
"
Poh
,
poh
,
you
are
obtuse
!
"
said
Mr
.
Smooth
-
it
-
away
,
with
a
hearty
laugh
.
"
Don
’
t
you
know
Apollyon
,
Christian
’
s
old
enemy
,
with
whom
he
fought
so
fierce
a
battle
in
the
Valley
of
Humiliation
?
He
was
the
very
fellow
to
manage
the
engine
;
and
so
we
have
reconciled
him
to
the
custom
of
going
on
pilgrimage
,
and
engaged
him
as
chief
engineer
.
"
"
Bravo
,
bravo
!
"
exclaimed
I
,
with
irrepressible
enthusiasm
;
"
this
shows
the
liberality
of
the
age
;
this
proves
,
if
anything
can
,
that
all
musty
prejudices
are
in
a
fair
way
to
be
obliterated
.
And
how
will
Christian
rejoice
to
hear
of
this
happy
transformation
of
his
old
antagonist
!
I
promise
myself
great
pleasure
in
informing
him
of
it
when
we
reach
the
Celestial
City
.
"
The
passengers
being
all
comfortably
seated
,
we
now
rattled
away
merrily
,
accomplishing
a
greater
distance
in
ten
minutes
than
Christian
probably
trudged
over
in
a
day
.
It
was
laughable
,
while
we
glanced
along
,
as
it
were
,
at
the
tail
of
a
thunderbolt
,
to
observe
two
dusty
foot
travellers
in
the
old
pilgrim
guise
,
with
cockle
shell
and
staff
,
their
mystic
rolls
of
parchment
in
their
hands
and
their
intolerable
burdens
on
their
backs
.
The
preposterous
obstinacy
of
these
honest
people
in
persisting
to
groan
and
stumble
along
the
difficult
pathway
rather
than
take
advantage
of
modern
improvements
,
excited
great
mirth
among
our
wiser
brotherhood
.
We
greeted
the
two
pilgrims
with
many
pleasant
gibes
and
a
roar
of
laughter
;
whereupon
they
gazed
at
us
with
such
woful
and
absurdly
compassionate
visages
that
our
merriment
grew
tenfold
more
obstreperous
.
Apollyon
also
entered
heartily
into
the
fun
,
and
contrived
to
flirt
the
smoke
and
flame
of
the
engine
,
or
of
his
own
breath
,
into
their
faces
,
and
envelop
them
in
an
atmosphere
of
scalding
steam
.
These
little
practical
jokes
amused
us
mightily
,
and
doubtless
afforded
the
pilgrims
the
gratification
of
considering
themselves
martyrs
.
At
some
distance
from
the
railroad
Mr
.
Smooth
-
it
-
away
pointed
to
a
large
,
antique
edifice
,
which
,
he
observed
,
was
a
tavern
of
long
standing
,
and
had
formerly
been
a
noted
stopping
-
place
for
pilgrims
.
In
Bunyan
’
s
road
-
book
it
is
mentioned
as
the
Interpreter
’
s
House
.
"
I
have
long
had
a
curiosity
to
visit
that
old
mansion
,
"
remarked
I
.
