Identifier: motoringaboard00pres (find matches)
Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the justly famous hostelries ofFrance. For the second time upon visits to France wefound ourselves the victims of their Fourth ofJuly festivities and holiday which, in thatcountry, comes July fourteenth, and is in cele-bration of the storming and fall of the Bastille.No laborer in France will consent to workeither the day before the fourteenth, becausehe must have that day to prepare for hisfestivities, or the day after, because he musthave that day to get over them. Our car had arrived but had not been takenfrom the hold of the ship and because of theseholidays it was absolutely impossible to have ittouched for three days. With our usual American impatience at delayswe tried to bribe, then cajoled and finally threat-ened, but it was no use. It was a clear case ofwait for three days, so wait we did with the bestgrace possible. Fortunately for us they werehaving the annual yacht races at Havre atthe time and the city was gay in consequence,and we had an opportunity of witnessing the 16
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The Michelin sJiields which we put on so thor-oughly protected our rear tires that we did nothave a single puncture in either of them- dur-ing our entire trip. tlTfje 0ttm Crosfsfing anb ©ur ^tribal in Jfrance races which were very exciting and unusuallyinteresting. During our stay we put in one evening amidthe holiday festivities in the Jardin or Park ofthe Hotel de Ville, or City Hall. The populacehad gathered en masse, bent on merrymaking,yet notwithstanding the crush and crowd wenever saw a better-natured lot of people together.There was no drunkenness or disorder, andwhether one was able or not to elbow his or herway up near enough to the great pavilion wherethe band was playing to hear the music it mat-tered little. Merriment ruled the hour andevery one was bent on taking things as theycame. We saw here in this Park one of theprettiest tricks of illumination. There weremyriads of little colored globes with miniaturecandles inside set in the closely cropped grass ofthe lawns in

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