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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. N Liverpool: at the Adelphi Hotel. Looking out, and seeing, and hearing men, women, horses and wagons. Such odd-looking wagons, too, and those funny-looking, round-bellied, snug, little Welsh ponies, that seemed to know no other gait than a trot. Not to be rocking about as we had been Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. N Liverpool: at the Adelphi Hotel. Looking out, and seeing, and hearing men, women, horses and wagons. Such odd-looking wagons, too, and those funny-looking, round-bellied, snug, little Welsh ponies, that seemed to know no other gait than a trot. Not to be rocking about as we had been for ten days. To see, for the first time, women keeping a hotel, and good-looking, smart, educated women at that. Those great big beds, so curiously canopied, with as much covering on them as if instead of June it had been November. The various windings we had to take in order to get to our chambers. To be waited on by servants in livery. When a pretty boy with violet colored livery and brass buttons brought to me the first things I ordered, I had feelings approaching the aristocratic. The service was trifling, and I hesitated whether I would offer him a sixpence; but he received it with such cordiality that I was glad I did it. It was three o'clock, and, feeling like eating, we made known our wants, and were invited to the coffee-room. " The coffee-room? " said Jim. "Yes, sir." "Why, my dear friend, we want our dinner. We don't want any coffee this time of day." The boy smiled, and led us across the hall, and we entered the large room which, to his delight, Jim foundto contain or to have the means of getting whatever the hungriest and the daintiest might desire. A very portly and elegantly-dressed man with steel-pen coat and white vest and cravat met ns at the door, and directed a waiter to conduct us to a.table. " That's the proprietor," whispered Jim. " Don't he look well fed? And so they call a dining-room a coffee- room over here. Likewise, they call a horse-car a tramway. We've got a heap to learn in the language, I see, my friend. They've changed it a good de. Books, Literary Collections~~General, Two-Gray-Tourists~~Richard-Malcolm-Johnston, 999999999, Two Gray Tourists, Richard Malcolm Johnston (Editor), 110451639X, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

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