The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 4: To California and Return

Her decks are crowded with excited passengers, who instantly undertake to look after their trunks and things; and what with our smashing against each other, and the yells of the porters, and the wails over lost baggage, and the crash of boxes, and the roar of the boilers, we are for the time being about as unhappy a lot of maniacs as was ever thrown together.