Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-08-13

IOr Qlnner. 1nlS is tne great watering
place of the Kingdom. 1t is beauti
fully located, and much has been
done to make it attractive and pleas
ant. At present it appears to be dull
but we were informed that the busy
season usually commenced the first Of
August, and continued until Decem.
ber, and that about one hundred
thousand visitors spent the summer
there. After riding about the upper
part of the city we spin up and down
the main Ave, which extends for fou,
miles along the seashore. The water
seems so inviting We roll down and
bath briefly, for the water to us seemed
very cold. Bedtime arrives and we
retire.
Thursday morning, July LIST, We are
out early and on the road to New
Haven, ten miles away. We arrive
safely and wheel to the boat landing,
for in the afternoon we are to set sail
for Dieppe, France. We book our
machines, buy our tickets and ascer.
tain that our vessel will sail promptly
at 2 o'clock. Having several hours to
wait, we examine ourselves and it is
our sad misfortune to realize that there
is not drop Of French blood in our
veins, and not a French word in our
minds. We had expected my brother
who speaks the language, to ac-
company us through France, and dis
appointedly we were left without an
interpreter, and all we have in this
world that is least bit Frenchy is a
little green covered book containing
few English and French sentences.
Well we all sat down, put our heads
together and took our first French
lesson. On the thirty-fourth page we
find " Apportez-moi un biscuit" and
the book says it means Bring me a
biscuit" J. NJ. intimates that it
would be a good thing for him to learn
to say, but prefers to have the last
word biscuit changed to large loaf
of bread, and thinks it a good idea to
put pan of milk in somewhere. We
all are anxious to learn French, go We
peruse the book. On the forty-eighth
page we find that " Du pain" is bread.
We are unable to find anything that
means large loaf, so we use Cent
ivres," "a hundred weight.) We find
nothing that means pan, so We supply
Gun petit baril, "a small barely and
Du lait" meaning milk, we have
"Apportez-moi un cent ivres du pain,
ct un petit baril du lait," (bring me
hundred weight of bread, and
small barrel of milk. We inform him
that this is what he must say when
he desires large bowl of bread and
milk. He makes a stagger at the pro-
nounciation but we find it incorrect,
so We pronounce it for him. He then
retires some distance away to say his
piece. Each one tries to become ia
milar with that part of the French
language that he thinks he will most
need. We soon discover that our
wants are prodigious and it is quite
evident that we have big job on our
hands. We have no time to lose, 60
some one suggests that we resort, in
case of necessity, to more natural
method, or in other words, that we
gesture it out. In view Of the fact
that we collectively and individually,
have limited idea of what the French
language is, and believing it expedient
to resort to any or all reasonable
means through which it may be pos
sible to make a multitude Of wants
known, We believe the last sugges-
ton good one. and adopt the plan.
The whistle blows and we forget our
troubles for short time to make ready
for the voyage.
At two O'Clock precisely our little
side-wheel steamer glides out of the
harbor at the rate of sixteen miles per
hour, and as she steams along the
great white cliffs she seems but a speck
but she moves SO beautifully that we
are more delighted with her than with
the great City of Rome. But as We
push further out into the channel, the
sea grows heavier and soon the waves
toss her about like bobbin to a fish
line and our opinions so down as our
dinners 60 up. We. lose all relish fol-
the French language and the desire
to see France. In fact we lose pretty
much everything but our boots. We'll
we don't like to talk about it, and te
cut a long story short we concluded
that it might be possible to max.
Frenchmen out of us but sailors i'm
possible. "We are not built tha
way"
Thanks to kind Providence at 7 N
We arrive in Dieppe and all there i
LETT OF us goes upon shore. We have
hardly reached the end of the gan,
plank when squad of blue-iacke
fellows swarm around us. and com
mence firing their French at us. w
are taken rather unawares, and befor
We could get time to converse witt
them in their own language or othe,
wise our coats were unbottoned. an
four persons and baggage examined
Well to tell the truth we didn't try I
talk much and don't have any r,
membrance Of any Of US trying I
gesture for there was lot Of men wit
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