The Economical European Tourist
by William Hemstreet (9780217280495)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. SOUTH IRELAND. THERE will be no attempt in this little volume to equal or imitate in any degree the many excellent guide-books that may be had almost anywhere, and all of which are of .good practical service. Every city, country, or lesser object of interest has a local guide-book; a thorough consultation of them will save the tourist time and money. Self-reliance and the business sharpness practiced at home, a bearing without flurry or loss of self-possession, will carry a tourist in 'Europe as economically as here. Care should be taken, in the selection of a guide-book, to get the latest issue, as dealers are accustomed to " palm off" old trash. Intending to make this little work very limited, there will be an endeavor to put into it only such novel observations and comparisons as can not be found elsewhere. Immediately on landing at Queenstown, I found that my foresight had made a " decided hit" inselecting for my luggage only a hand-valise; for I distanced my .companions and secured comfortable quarters in the middle of the night, while they were yet perplexed and delayed by the customs officers and the swarms of Irish porters, who were worse than gnats. My luggage consisted of six shirts and collaterals, a tooth-brush, a hair-brush, Harper's Guidebook, an opera-glass, and note-books?that is all. QUEENSTOWN. The first touch of Ireland, though at midnight, showed us " strong government." The docks of hewn stone, the military police, and the neat and substantial appearance of things, were discovered in the night. The carrier of baggage overcharged, and asked, in addition, a drink of whisky. At the Queen's Hotel,1 very bad air in the corridors. Aroused the porter, who jabbered so we could not understand more than as if French, until two or three r...

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