The Irish Sketch Book: And Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
The book The Irish Sketch Book: And Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo was written by author Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Here you can read free online of The Irish Sketch Book: And Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Irish Sketch Book: And Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo a good or bad book?
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When it is stated that, throughout the town of Galway, you cannot get a cigar which costs more than twopence, Londoners may imagine the strangeness and remoteness of the place. The rain poured down for two days after our arrival at " Kilroy's Hotel." An umbrella under such circumstances is a poor resource : self-contemplation is far more amusing ; especially smoking, and a game at cards, if any one will be so good as to play. But there was no one in the hotel coffee-room who was inclined for th...e sport. The company there, on the day of our arrival, con- sisted of two coach-passengers, — a Frenchman who came from Sligo, and ordered mutton-chops and f raid potatoes for dinner by himself, a turbot which cost two shillings, and in Billingsgate would have been worth a guinea, and a couple of native or inhabitant bachelors, who frequented the tabk-d' hote. By the way, besides these tjiere were at dinner two turkeys (so that Mr. Kilroy's two-shilling ordinary was by no means ill supplied) ; and, as a stranger, I had the honour of carving these animals, which were dispensed in rather a singular way.
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