This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ..."How funny!" as a great many other Americans have been known to do in England. If an Englishman says that sort of thing here, it makes the natives feel very hot under the collar, and I never forgot that Englishmen and Americans are made of very much the same blood and muscle and have about the same sort of tempers. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ..."How funny!" as a great many other Americans have been known to do in England. If an Englishman says that sort of thing here, it makes the natives feel very hot under the collar, and I never forgot that Englishmen and Americans are made of very much the same blood and muscle and have about the same sort of tempers. Another thing I may say by way of both warning and encouragement to Americans; and that is, that all the while I was in England I drank nothing stronger than water. It saved me a great deal of trouble. Much liquor is drunk in England; the natives can stand it; the air isn't exactly like ours; it isn't as exhilarating, and people can stand more stimulants without feeling uncomfortable: but you have to get thoroughly acclimated there before you can do it. I don't know what is the period of acclimatization, but from the condition of some Americans I have seen over there I should say it wasn't safe to drink a drop in less than forty years after arrival. Even then it isn't quite as safe as letting it alone. Some Americans drink freely because they think the natives would be offended if they didn't, but there isn't any such backwoods idea of manners among the English people. No fellow draws a pistol on you if you refuse to take a brandy-and-soda with him. Nobody feels you are not a gentleman if you decline the wine when it's passed to you at dinner. The American who wants to keep his eyes and ears open, and have a real good time in England, had better sign the pledge before he starts. If he must be a drinking man most of the time at home, he will have the con. solation that his abstinence for two or three months will insure him a good drunken time when he comes back; he wouldn't take a hundred dollars for his thirsty, as the soldier said on c...
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