The innocents abroad, by Mark Twain. Author's Engl. ed

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Side 224 - Discover America. No — that statement will hardly wash. We are just from America ourselves. We heard nothing about it. Christopher Colombo — pleasant name — is — is he dead?" "Oh, corpo di Baccho! Three hundred year!
Side 224 - Christopher Colombo — the great Christopher Colombo. Well, what did he do?" " Discover America ! — discover America, Oh, ze devil !"
Side 226 - That conquers the serenest of them. It is not what they are looking for— especially a new guide. Our Roman Ferguson is the most patient, unsuspecting, long-suffering subject we have had yet. We shall be sorry to part with him. We have enjoyed his society very much. We trust he has enjoyed ours, but we are harassed with doubts.
Side 150 - A deep vale, Shut out by Alpine hills from the rude world...
Side 135 - Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy ; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.) We reserve our opinion of these sketches.
Side 178 - French* in foreign hotel registers ! "We laugh at Englishmen, when we are at home, for sticking so sturdily to their national ways and customs, but we look back upon it from abroad very forgivingly. It is not pleasant to see an American thrusting his nationality forward obtrusively in a foreign land, but Oh, it ia M'SIEU OOK-B-DONO.
Side 6 - Our duty is to keep the universe thoroughly posted concerning murders and street fights and balls and theatres, and pack-trains, and churches, and lectures, and school-houses, and city military affairs, and highway robberies, and Bible societies, and hay...

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