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in and pay your fare, the driver strikes a bell, and the hand moves
to the figure 1--that is, "one fare, and paid for," and there is your
receipt, as good as if you had it in your pocket. When a passenger pays
his fare and the driver does not strike the bell immediately, he is
greeted "Strike that bell! will you?"
I must close now. I intend visiting the Navy Yard, Mint, etc., before
I write again. You must write often. You see I have nothing to write
interesting to you, while you can write nothing that will not interest
me. Don't say my letters are not long enough. Tell Jim Wolfe to write.
Tell all the boys where I am, and to write. Jim Robinson, particularly.
I wrote to him from N. Y. Tell me all that is going on in H--l.
Truly your brother
SAM.
Those were primitive times. Imagine a passenger in these
easy-going days calling to a driver or conductor to "Strike
that bell!"
"H--l" is his abbreviation for Hannibal. He had first used
it in a title of a poem which a few years before, during one
of Orion's absences, he had published in the paper. "To
Mary in Hannibal" was too long to set as a display head in
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