Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-15

the highways aud byWavs of EHttuny
YOU must never expect hospitality of tbr
peasant people. il is the only furpipn
lund n which I have wandered ON foot
where The stranger and especially tho
American stranger is NOT Wp'cnur
umong lowly folk with mmastiouiug
corilnliy aud an almost Oncplionate re-
guri,
Can at q Brondsidc cottage I'm Bril-.
tnny and ask for food and nights
shelter ami the whole family win rowd
into the door 10 obshuct your passucc.
Then they viii silently mud sullcnh look
You over Mhithcr irOm2 Whittier
houndf " foreigner. thry are oven
shrcWd enough To demand your pass-
port No vugahond, dcscrtcr nor ticket
oi'loNve man win they hurhnr Fiunllv
assured You are none of thcao thcy set
about bargaining for the last son thcy
cun wiring from You. The food Won arc
10 get 90 the very color OF The coflco h
set powerfully against your money.
Their own p0ycfty, their hrwndcring
number ot children, the lonely road ID
the nearest Village inn. The fact that M
the next cottage they would probably
murder us we'll ns tnkc yOu IN; am and
-l',q 1poN IHum ol QlIol lds 50 olnul Vaum
gain "a hard one 80. too. tho toothlcss
ola Peasant bag mother while cycing YOU
nskunct, croons 60 her husband n run
ming hre of ohjcstions to the uirAuce.
mcuL few which set YOU down tn your
face as villianou5 SPY. sO.ur wretch
| that has cheated the gihhpt. aud cci-
tainly no less than the thief OF Breton
horses who was oanghi ana logged az
the last horse fair at In Fumet
They are shrewd and ouuny, those sim-
| PIE folk, and they vii make you very
| iuitWadle until the price is seq and paid
| down Ion hand, for thoY VIII NOT trust
you with tho sum until morning, lest
/ your appearance hclie your ability 90
| pay luj the lnwnlpious Transaction once
| settled and o few sous scattered among
/ the children, which arc Immediately
I snutchcd away nud hiddon go the fori-
ors stmuy box, the atmosphere suddenly
| clonge8. lon are tho puest now An
/ The m-kceping pOltoncas sn0vity and
attention of Paris itsolf are yours and
| Wul You lenYr eYelN sopl in The cnttage
puts every other dnty aside TO minister
unto your wants aud comfort
There Is gih-tOpguci raven, the
/ pride Of certain otherwise deirhtiul.
| oid.tashioncl inu beside Convent Garden.
| London, much trcquenlcd by Americans.
| against which many of us who have SUE
! fcred from its iilJimed speoulations
| and maledicti0ns possess fcplinus far
| from a benign and friendly character
| The morning after ms first arrival M
/ this hOstolry, | wished 60 take ana early
train for Brighton; and as no one. save
I costOfmOngers ard market p0rtcrs. n
| astir m london before \ or D O'Clock. 1
! WAS compelled TO awaken and get away
I without The pleasant i0unality OF being
I called Anxious 90 net miss my train. i
I hastily descended 10 the office d00r, Here
! found ihe street door aiar but the dln-
/ ing room, the office, the reading room
and apparently an The minor offices wer,
/ slilrd closed ana dark, and no servant
I Whatever conld he summoned hy can
\ ~ voice Or he'll
! THE idea OF leaving the hotel without
lepouing the fact worried mo. ! begun
! tpt00ing about Ia quest 81 somebody.
/ This OF iistlf impelied feeling 81 wHlt
| sud dread ! was late, ht IL Occnrn.d
20 pio that } must take along nly mu.
hrolla, J +. stood with others la the grpat
hallway leading lo the dining room j
somehow felt Ike q climinal when an-