Excerpt from Surf: A Summer Pilgrimage When Thucydides suggested the return of our usual summer tramp the other day, i am free to confess the idea did not strike me with its usual force. Perhaps there were reasons for this absence of enthusiasm not altogether inconsistent with the popular idea of a tramp, and perhaps there were not. Iam not going to argue the point. To the individual who has not endured the agonies of an extra session of Congress it would be impossible to convey any idea of the supreme blessings Of rest. ...
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Excerpt from Surf: A Summer Pilgrimage When Thucydides suggested the return of our usual summer tramp the other day, i am free to confess the idea did not strike me with its usual force. Perhaps there were reasons for this absence of enthusiasm not altogether inconsistent with the popular idea of a tramp, and perhaps there were not. Iam not going to argue the point. To the individual who has not endured the agonies of an extra session of Congress it would be impossible to convey any idea of the supreme blessings Of rest. When one has been obliged for nearly four wretched months to report the goings-out and the, comings-in of a few hundred, more or less, of sweltering Congressmen who haven't known their own minds over night, and who have been known to change their firm opinions and convictions twenty-four times within as 'many consecutive hours; when one has been forced to listen to the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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