Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Discoveries in Every-Day Europe: Vagrant Notes of a Rapid Journey
Who have been on sea for ten days buy 2them eagerly, only to find a single layer of berries closely fitted over a basket of cabbage leaves.
The man who plays a bass-drum in the British drum corps is always very tall and long of arm. He beats the drum on alternate sides, cross-armed, so continuously as never to lose the rhythm. He wears a snow leopard skin over his shoulders and is an im posing personage.
Cape carts rule in Gibraltar. Six people ride in one behind a little Moor ish horse, and go fast at that uphill.
The dining-cars that run north from Basle into Germany use leaden-colored china. Each guest gets a stack of plates, piled one on top of the other, in number equal to the total of the courses. Six plates indicate six courses.
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