A Tramp Abroad

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CHAPTER I A Tramp over Europe On the Holsatia Hamburg Frankfort-on-the- Main How it Won its Name A Lesson in Political Economy Neatness in…
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“There's more TO a bluejay than any other creature. He has got more moods, and more different kinds of feelings than other creatures; and,…
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The combatants were watching each other with alert eyes; a perfect stillness, a breathless interest reigned. I felt that I was going to see…
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CONTENTS: CHAPTER VIII The Great French Duel Mistaken Notions Outbreak in the French Assembly Calmness of M Gambetta I Volunteer as Second…
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I do not wish to suggest that the rest of the people there were like me, for, indeed, they were not. Whether it was that they naturally lik…
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We were out of bed at break of day, feeling fresh and vigorous, and took a hearty breakfast, then plunged down through the leafy arcades of…
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I started to get up, and knocked down an umbrella; it made a noise like a pistol-shot when it struck that hard, slick, carpetless floor; I…
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But the faithful girl sang on, night after night, month after month, and patiently waited; her reward must come at last. Five years dragged…
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“How's she landing?” The answer came faint and hoarse from far forward: “Nor'-east-and-by-nor' east-by-east, half-east, sir.” “Let her go o…
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The captain probably imagined all this, as modern science denies that the intermarrying of relatives deteriorates the stock. Arrived within…
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“Yes indeedy! If I ain't an American there AIN'T any Americans, that's all. And when I heard you fellows gassing away in the good old Ameri…
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Those woods stretch unbroken over a vast region; and everywhere they are such dense woods, and so still, and so piney and fragrant. The ste…
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“Whar's the boss?” “I am the boss,” said the editor, following this curious bit of architecture wonderingly along up to its clock-face with…
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Lucerne is a charming place. It begins at the water's edge, with a fringe of hotels, and scrambles up and spreads itself over two or three…
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Martyrdom is the luckiest fate that can befall some people. Louis XVI did not die in his bed, consequently history is very gentle with him;…
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“But I want to practice my Arabic.” “Good gracious, do you speak Arabic?” “Yes well enough to get along.” “Why, hang it, you won't get alon…
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We got into some dry clothing, and while our supper was preparing we loafed forsakenly through a couple of vast cavernous drawing-rooms, on…
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The next afternoon we started for a walk up the Unteraar glacier, with the intention of, at all events, getting as far as the Hütte which i…
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When we reached the base of the Kaiserstuhl, we took two more horses; we had to toil along with difficulty for an hour and a half or two ho…
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CHAPTER XXXIII We Climb Far by Buggy The beautiful Giesbach Fall is near Interlaken, on the other side of the lake of Brienz, and is illumi…
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Close at hand, now, was a chance for a blood-curdling Alpine adventure. Close at hand was the snowy mass of the Great Altels cooling its to…
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This was almost a petrifying surprise. He straightened himself up in his chair and deliberately and sorrowfully inspected the busy old ladi…
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We were approaching Zermatt; consequently, we were approaching the renowned Matterhorn. A month before, this mountain had been only a name…
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We had nothing to do, now, but bridge the cellar and proceed on our way. With a cheer the men went at their work. I attended to the enginee…
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The Grandson of twenty-three referred to himself five or six times as an “old traveler,” and as many as three times (with a serene complace…
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Two ropes were made fast to his leather belt and he bore the end of a third one in his hand to tie to the victim in case he found him. He w…
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About 6 P.M., we arrived at the snow upon the ridge descending toward Zermatt, and all peril was over. We frequently looked, but in vain, f…
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I had seen moonlight and daylight together before, but I had not seen daylight and black night elbow to elbow before. At least I had not se…
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While I do not advise such a person to attempt the ascent, I do not advise him against it. But if he elects to attempt it, let him be waril…
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We reached the restaurant on the height called the Chapeau at four in the afternoon. It was a memento-factory, and the stock was large, che…
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In another quarter we found six Italians engaged in a violent quarrel. They danced fiercely about, gesticulating with their heads, their ar…
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Next, the butter the sham and tasteless butter; no salt in it, and made of goodness knows what. Then there is the beefsteak. They have it i…
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The greatest American hotels keep a number of clerks and a cashier, and pay them salaries which mount up to a considerable total in the cou…
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“In my tenth semester (my best one), I am cast here through the complaints of others. Let those who follow me take warning.” “III TAGE OHNE…
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It is a bleak Day. Hear the Rain, how he pours, and the Hail, how he rattles; and see the Snow, how he drifts along, and of the Mud, how de…
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APPENDIX E. Legend of the Castles Called the “Swallow's Nest” and “The Brothers,” as Condensed from the Captain's Tale In the neighborhood…