A. R. Wiggs
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 396
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Excerpt from Hal's Travels in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land: A Twelve Months Tour During Which He Saw Many Wonderful Things and a Vast Deal of Fun Now, my friends, if you feel inclined to travel, I would be pleased to have you quit your pleasant homes for a season, and journey with me into foreign lands. I think you will find yourselves amply repaid for all the toils you may undergo, for we shall visit many lands and many peoples, and shall look upon sights both quaint and curious. We will take our staves, bind on our sandals, and provide ourselves with scrip, for our wanderings will be long, and mayhap wearisome. I promise you, however, fair entertainment and genial companions by the way, for we shall refresh ourselves on "praties" with our Irish friends, herrings with the cannie Scotch, roast-beef with bluff, honest John Bull, and rabbits with the hardy Welch; with the polite Frenchman we will partake of wine and frogs, sour-krout with the pursy Dutchman, pipes and lager-beer with the German, goat's-milk and cheese with the Swiss - and then cross the proud Alps, and eat maccaroni with the Italian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.