This menu clearly has the same theme of historic transportation devices as the ones shown in the past several days, but it is a breakfast card instead of a dinner folder. The penny-farthing or high-wheeler bicycle was briefly popular before the modern safety bicycle, whose wheels are usually the same size and chain driven. Since then, the image of the penny-farthing, with its disproportionately large front wheel, has become the epitome of obsolete transportation.

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For breakfast, passengers had a choice of 12 different fruits, four juices, and five fruit compotes. Then there were two soups, ten cereals, two kinds of fish, and a variety of eggs and meats. Buckwheat cakes (with or without raisins), waffles, French toast, nine kinds of bread or toast, four pastries, and coffee, tea, cold or hot chocolate, or “yogourt” round out the menu. This menu was dated August 20; passengers to Quebec would disembark that day, while passengers to Montreal remained on board for one more night.