The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-16
Eatutinal Sslileruies ola Young Man.
soL1LouuY TIE FIRST.

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Heigho! So this is London, and
smokey, foggy, dismal metropolis it is
20 say the least of it.
Reminds me Of young Simpkins, o
u class, who undertook to write al
%apostrophe to the ocean---a la Byron
and completed n line: "Oh. thou pro
digious aampness!" Simpkins stucl
there ana couldn't get any farther; bu
there is ncs such limit to London damp
ness.
By the great ponds of Michigan, the
air here seems to hold water in solu-
lion! One runs q risk of being drowned
in breatling!'
1 suppose This is what Mr.. Guppy
called a "Londsn particular" but with
all due respect, I don't think London is
particular, or she wouldn't have such
an atmosphere.
Fine showing. this, for an April
morning! Ho. hum! I really must get
up and m ence my pilgrimage.
I can't understand why I should hare
started on this European tour, and con-
deuned myself to wandering abons
looking at things 1 don't want to see,
climbing mountains I don't want to
climbs. rummaging around through
nasty streets where | don't want to
rummage, and inhaing oders that L
decidedly object to. What is the use
now of my doing" London, and sub
lecting myself to fatigue, odors, and
'ackney coaches. whensI accomplish it
all so much more pleasantly with one
of Dickens novels at home in a ham
mock, or.drifting down the Chesapeake?
l can tunderstand why / should want
to see the Tower because the princes
We're murdered there, nor the Avon be-
cause Shakespeare was born there, nor o
hundred and n other places because
something was done or wasn't done
there! Ii o man tells me that his IA
Their was hanged, l am quite satisfied to
believe him without rushing off I'M
mediately to see the place and bring
ing away a piece of the gallows or a
OH Vo VI II iopSs |#'
Thank heaven, when I'm through
with London my occupation gone, and
J. a go home in peace. Constantine
pie, Venice, Rome, Switzerland, Paris
I've done them all, and pretty thor
oughly, l hope, though my people ct
home will be sure to think of some con-
founded place that I ought to have seen
but didn't see. Something that I have
omitted which they have been dying to
see for goodness knows how long.
Think I'd better coach up on the
guide book, and-that reminds me 1
gave mine to the pretty girl whom I
rescued in Venice from the gondoliers
Those fellows are as bad as London
Observation-Disclosures who was SO
charmingly grateful. Said she hoped
We might meet again, and she was ever
and ever SO much obliged to me-, and it
was so nice to meet q countryman, for
she was American. l would have
known that if she had stopped after
"nice"-and a great deal more to the
same effect, all in the sweetest voice and
with the cordial, confiding way which
belongs alone to our girls. Bless 'eml
Shook hands with me, smiled more in
her soft gray eyessthan with her lips,
and left me standing there with my hat
off, a spectacle for those rascally boat
men!
Made a memorandum on blank leaf
of my guide-book to this effect:
Prettiest picture in Venice. Study
in gray. Gray eyes, grey robe, name
Gray. Worth a fortune, but by the
right person to be had forthe asking.
N. B.-Wou]d that dared to ask.
Then | gave the nearest gondolier a
twenty franc piece to overtake her and
retrieve to Mademoiselle the book she
did neglect. And that's all.
By Jove, 1 must get up!