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and Birmingham with its mammoth iron plants in order challenged the admiration and assisted to educate the son of the forest.

Cardiff (Wales) in energy and "git up" is quite an American city, having increased in population and wealth 55 per cent. in nine years, remains on our ledger as a banner six days' stand, and receipts exceeding [$] 10,000 ($50,000), in the R.R. stocks rising on the market and one restaurant alone feeding 15,000 extra dinners to the visiting to the South of England profitable and enjoyable. Brighton with its beauty in repose and its terror in a cyclone will long be remembered as our last stop before going to Glasgow (Scotland) where the winter was spent in a specially arranged building. Here we were made acquainted with the many sturdy virtues of the Scot, where 6,000 orphan children, impromptu sang "Yankee Doodle" on the appearance of the starry flag, will ever be remembered for the many public and social courtesies extended.

A return to the scene of our London triumphs brought a renewal of all that was pleasant and aggreeable in our former experience, and brought our visit to the Old World to a close with a bright compliment under the circumstances of a Royal request to exhibit before her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of England and Empress of India; who was thus the first and only potentate on earth to view as yet the Wild West in conjunction with the Rough Riders of the World. This episode has been so lately exploited in the press as to preclude more extended comment.

Leaving England with genuine expressions of regret from thousands who witnessed our departure, we now cast our fortunes, in presenting the Wild West and its Coadjutor Congress of Primitive Horseman in the metropolis of the West--without the Wild. Now comes but one regret, the absence of ability to fittingly express the deep sense of obligation we feel to every nation--every city visited for the kindness of each and all of every rank, every station, [adress?], public, and officials, for the helping hands, [Iraternal?] interest, courteous treatment, and general appreciation shown us and our country's flag; so that in returning home, we feel bound in dutyhome, we feel bound in duty to record the same, believing that, in presenting our rought pictures of a "history almost passed away," we may have done some moiety of good in simplifying the work of the historian, the romancer, the painter, and the student of the future, and in exemplifying in ourselves and experiences the fact that travel is the best educator, and that association and acquaintanceship dispel prejudice, create breadth of thought, and enhance appreciation of the truism that "one touch of nature makes the whole world kin."