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overed his lost trunk, and he was so gra

ns and it always made him feel more at home to travel with

t in the damp and dismal mixture of mud an

utline on one side, the white walls of the mounting city on the other, Vesuvius looming in the

heavily laden with Americans, some sixty of whom will be our fellow-passengers to Alexandria. The hotels are overflowing with Ya

e busy days. The harvest days are at hand. The Americans have come. An English woman who had seen the horde i

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he takes out a small leather-bound book presented to him by an insurance company in America in appreciation of the fact that

tions. His English is not of the most scholarly brand. As

meaty information, and contains many a flashlight on life in

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e floats in and buys a cake for 6d., whatever that means. Dealer puts out gold sign to the effect that he is supplying the royalty with lather. Public breaks down showcases getting at his merchandise. All true democrats theoretica

ertina, hat. Surprised-always supposed that at least a dozen men had worked on it. Establishment had documents to prove that the f

all the streets of New York. New cab horse comes along-never has tackled rubber pavement-is clattering noisily over the asphalt-suddenly hits the soft rubber and begins to bounce up and down like a tennis ball. Strange

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quite old enough for music halls, wears extraordinary trousers-legs very narrow a

sex with whom he or she was really in love. Marriages did not interfere with love affairs, but helped to complicate the plot. Discovered why we can never hav

very poor people, who are getting parks, sunshine and shower baths free of charge, bless the L.C.C. The dress coat crowd in the theatres seem to have it in for the L.C.C., but they are very strong for Mr. Chamberlain, notwithstanding his recent defeat. Mr. Chamberlain seems to be a great deal like Mr. Bryan-that is, nearly everyone admires him, but not enough people v

ough to cover the ground this morning, but everyone is talking about the 'snowsto

e would spend $100 a day. The official who brings fuel to my room in a small tin measure insis

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all the way across, looking fixedly at oscillating horizon and wondering why I had left home-bleak, snowy landscape all the way

l is running up. The indicator is set at seventy-five centimes at the start. In other words, you owe fifteen cents before you get away. Then it clicks up ten centimes at a time, and whe

mbitious characters to go out at night and kill a few belated pedestrians merely in a spirit of bravado and to build up a reputation among their associates. Seems unfair to the pedestrians. At one of the theatres where a 'revue' or hodge-podge 'take-off' on topics of current interes

Two cents a pound for all baggage in excess of a measly fifty-six pounds. No wonder people travel by day in the refrigerator cars and try to keep warm by craw

general round-up about five in the afternoon, everyone gulping tea and e

ed up as a startling novelty. All the 'revues' studded with songs popular at home about two years ago-Frenchmen be

together kill the taste, so I tried to order some. Knew that 'horse' was 'cheveau' and 'red' was 'rouge,' but could not think of the French for 'ish,' so I had to do without. Somewhat discouraged about m

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ounts agreed. Had looked forward during a long month to this ride through sunny France. Had dreamed of green landscapes that lay smiling in the genial warmth, the stately poplars leading away to purple hills, and the happy labourers looking up from their toil in the fie

'Trilby.' Possibly that is what ailed Svengali. The bouillabaisse and the 'Marseillaise' were both invented in Marseilles. The mayonnaise comes from elsewhere. The bouillabaisse is a combination of soup, ragout, chowder, and New England boiled dinner. T

isto was imprisoned here. Man on board said that the character of Edmund Dantes was wholly fictitious, manufactured by Dumas. Must be a mistake, as I saw the small rock o

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what the run is going to be. The barber on our dampfer no good. Shy on conversation, but great on arithmetic. Charged me two francs for a shave, and when I suggested that he was rather high he said he was compelled to ask one franc and thirty centimes for the extract of vanilla he had put on my hair. Told him I did not want any extract of

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trickling down Vesuvius. Finest landmark and sailing target a sailor could ask for. When we were forty miles away we wanted the captain to s

death could not be substituted. Cabmen seemed downcast. Municipality recently forbade any extra charge for cab service on a fiesta, or holiday. In Italy 300 days out of every 365 can be rung in under the head of fiestas. Every American who landed in Naples found himself right in the midst of a fiesta and

ds of them disappear into the ship, so many it seemed they must have been packed in below by hydraulic pressure, otherwise there wouldn't have been room for them. All headed for the land of the free to build railroads. Engl

r Alexandria. He admits that he may have overlooked a few minor points of interest,

ey has arranged with the tourist agency to chan

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