America And the Americans From a French Point of View
The book America And the Americans From a French Point of View was written by author Collier, Price, 1860-1913 Here you can read free online of America And the Americans From a French Point of View book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is America And the Americans From a French Point of View a good or bad book?
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only one example. The boy was perhaps Another twelve or fourteen years old were, to all appearance, rich. We were sitting on the deck of a steamer, and some remark was made about lifts in private houses. The boy was asked if there was one in his house. " No," was the reply, * ' but my popper [papa was intended] is rich enough to have one if he wanted to ! " It is needless to give other verbatim re- ports of similar speeches from American children ; suffice it to record the fact that this was by... no means the only one I heard. Often I stood about and, without appearing to do so, I listened to the conversations of different groups of children — this is easy, often unavoidable in America — for the children are everywhere en evidence. They are in the railway-trains, in the tram-cars, in the hotel corridors, in the restaurants, at the theatres ; they dine at night at the fable d'hote with their parents, they come down and order their own breakfasts in the hotel restaurant, and in some of the sum- mer hotels they are like flies in, on, around, and into, everything.
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