Category: Humour

An American Girl Abroad

We two alone.--"Good by."--"Are you the captain of this ship?"--Wretchedness.--The jolly Englishman and the Yankee.--A sail!--The Cattle-man.--The Jersey-man whose bark was on the sea.--Church services under difficulties.--The sweet young English face.--Down into the depths to...

Chapters

32. Chapter 32

Coming home.--The breaking up of the party.--We start for Paris alone.--Basle, and a search for a hotel.--The twilight ride.--The shopkeeper whose wits had gone "a wool-gatherin...

29. Chapter 29

The Lake of Lucerne.--Days of rest in the city.--An excursion up the Righi.--The crowd at the summit.--Dinner at midnight.--Rising before "the early worm."--The "sun-rise" accor...

28. Chapter 28

First glimpse of the Rhine.--Cologne and the Cathedral.--"Shosef in ter red coat."--St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins.--Up the Rhine to Bonn.--The German students.--Rol...

31. Chapter 31

Geneva.--Calvin and jewelry.--Up Lake Leman.--Ouchy and Lausanne.--"Sweet Clarens."--Chillon.--Freyburg.--Sight-seers.--The Last Judgment.--Berne and its bears.--The town like a...

18. Chapter 18

Up the harbor of Liverpool.--We all emerge as butterflies.--The Mersey tender.--Lot's wife.--"Any tobacco?"--"Names, please."--St. George's Hall.--The fashionable promenade.--Th...

17. Chapter 17

We two alone.--"Good by."--"Are you the captain of this ship?"--Wretchedness.--The jolly Englishman and the Yankee.--A sail!--The cattle-man.--The Jersey-man whose bark was on t...

22. Chapter 22

The devil.--Cathedrals and churches.--The Louvre.--Modern French art.--The Beauvais clock, with its droll little puppets.--Virtue in a red gown.--The Luxembourg Palace.--The yaw...

27. Chapter 27

Up the Meuse to Rotterdam.--Dutch sights and ways.--The pretty milk-carriers.--The tea-gardens.--Preparations for the Sabbath.--An English chapel.--"The Lord's barn."--From Rott...

20. Chapter 20

The Tower.--The tall Yankee of inquiring mind.--Our guide in gorgeous array.--War trophies.--Knights in armor.--A professional joke.--The crown jewels.--The house where the litt...

19. Chapter 19

Strange ways.--"The bears that went over to Charlestown."--The delights of a runaway without its dangers.--Flower show at the Crystal Palace.--Whit-Monday at Hampton Court.--A q...

25. Chapter 25

To Brussels.--The old and new city.--The paradise and purgatory of dogs.--The Hôtel de Ville and Grand Place.--St. Gudule.--The picture galleries.--Wiertz and his odd paintings....

26. Chapter 26

To Waterloo.--Beggars and guides.--The Mound.--Chateau Hougomont.--Victor Hugo's "sunken road."--Antwerp.--A visit to the cathedral.--A drive about the city.--An excursion to Gh...

30. Chapter 30

The quaint inn.--The Falls of the Sallenches, and the Gorge de Trient.--Shopping in a Swiss village.--A mule ride to Chamouni.--Peculiarities of the animals.--Entrance to the vi...

23. Chapter 23

The Gobelin tapestry.--How and where it is made.--Père la-Chaise.--Poor Rachel!--The baby establishment.--"Now I lay me."--The little mother.--The old woman who lived in a shoe....

24. Chapter 24

The river omnibuses.--Sèvres and its porcelain.--St. Cloud as it was.--The crooked little town.--Versailles.--Eugenie's "spare bedroom."--The queen who played she was a farmer's...

21. Chapter 21

The wedding party.--The canals.--New Haven.--Around the tea-table.--Separating the sheep from the goats.--"Will it be a rough passage?"--Gymnastic feats of the little steamer.--...

13. Chapter 13

The Lake of Lucerne.--Days of rest in the city.--An excursion up the Righi.--The crowd at the summit.-- Dinner at midnight.--Rising before "the early worm."--The "sun-rise" acco...

12. Chapter 12

First glimpse of the Rhine.--Cologne and the Cathedral.--"Shosef in ter red coat."--St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins.--Up the Rhine to Bonn.--The German students.--Rol...

3. Chapter 3

Strange ways.--"The bears that went over to Charlestown."--The delights of a runaway without its dangers.--Flower show at the Crystal Palace.--Whit-Monday at Hampton Court.--A q...

2. Chapter 2

Up the harbor of Liverpool.--We all emerge as butterflies.--The Mersey tender.--Lot's wife.--"Any tobacco?"--"Names, please."--St. George's Hall.--The fashionable promenade.--Th...

16. Chapter 16

Coming home.--The breaking up of the party.--We start for Paris alone.--Basle, and a search for a hotel.-- The twilight ride.--The shopkeeper whose wits had gone "a wool-gatheri...

4. Chapter 4

The Tower.--The tall Yankee of inquiring mind.--Our guide in gorgeous array.--War trophies.--Knights in armor.--A professional joke.--The crown jewels.--The room where the littl...

11. Chapter 11

Up the Meuse to Rotterdam.--Dutch sights and ways.--The pretty milk-carriers.--The tea-gardens.--Preparations for the Sabbath.--An English chapel.--"The Lord's barn."--From Rott...

14. Chapter 14

The quaint inn.--The Falls of the Sallenches, and the Gorge de Trient.--Shopping in a Swiss village.--A mule ride to Chamouni.--Peculiarities of the animals.--Entrance to the vi...

6. Chapter 6

The devil.--Cathedrals and churches.--The Louvre.--Modern French art.--The Beauvais clock, with its droll, little puppets.--Virtue in a red gown.--The Luxembourg Palace.--The ya...

1. Chapter 1

We two alone.--"Good by."--"Are you the captain of this ship?"--Wretchedness.--The jolly Englishman and the Yankee.--A sail!--The Cattle-man.--The Jersey-man whose bark was on t...

10. Chapter 10

To Waterloo.--Beggars and guides.--The Mound.--Chateau Hougomont.--Victor Hugo's "sunken road."--Antwerp.--A visit to the cathedral.--A drive about the city.--An excursion to Gh...

9. Chapter 9

To Brussels.--The old and new city.--The paradise and purgatory of dogs.--The Hôtel de Ville and Grand Place.--St. Gudule.--The picture galleries.--Wiertz and his odd paintings....

7. Chapter 7

The Gobelin tapestry.--How and where it is made.--Père La-Chaise.--Poor Rachel!--The baby establishment.--"Now I lay me."--The little mother.--The old woman who lived in a shoe....

5. Chapter 5

The wedding party.--The canals.--New Haven.--Around the tea-table.--Separating the sheep from the goats.--"Will it be a rough passage?"--Gymnastic feats of the little steamer.--...

15. Chapter 15

Geneva.--Calvin and jewelry.--Up Lake Leman.--Ouchy and Lausanne.--"Sweet Clarens."--Chillon.--Freyburg.-- Sight-seers.--The Last Judgment.--Berne and its bears.--The town like...

8. Chapter 8

The river omnibuses.--Sèvres and its porcelain.--St. Cloud as it was.--The crooked little town.-- Versailles.--Eugenie's "spare bedroom."--The queen who played she was a farmer'...