And now, farewell, my boy, with your ton of reason, May God you bless at
every season.
The trip on the Rhine concluded, Paul in company with Doctor Willis
visited several cities in Germany, Holland and Belgium, where he
gave exhibitions till the ice stopped his work. He then crossed to
England and took a steamer to New York on a flying trip home, where he
arrived December 28th, 1878. He had been gone about sixteen months.
CHAPTER XI.
After spending a few weeks with his family, Captain Boyton received an
invitation to visit a friend in St. Louis. While there the swift current
of the Mississippi, which was then flowing with ice, tempted him and he
made a voyage from Alton to St. Louis, about twenty-five miles. A boat
containing newspaper reporters was to accompany him down; but the
weather proved too cold for them and they abandoned him after a few
miles. The thermometer was below zero, and a man was frozen to death
that morning in a wagon at Alton. His reception in St. Louis was
something extraordinary. The deafening noise made by the steamers and
tug boats as they passed the bridge was heard far beyond the city
limits. Before he left St. Louis he gave a lecture for the benefit of
St. Luke's Hospital, and on that occasion was presented with a massive
silver service.
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