Excerpt from A Souvenir of the Intercolonial Railway, the Popular and Scenic Route of Canada Ten or eleven months of the year, and then, with the idea that he needs rest and recreation, will put himself and his family through a course of sprouts fearful to contemplate. This course of sprouts is humorously termed a fashionable pleasure excursion. It consists in a season of preparation and packing, of setting forth to join the innumerable caravan, and of several weeks of wretched unrest amid the dust, heat, crush and ...
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Excerpt from A Souvenir of the Intercolonial Railway, the Popular and Scenic Route of Canada Ten or eleven months of the year, and then, with the idea that he needs rest and recreation, will put himself and his family through a course of sprouts fearful to contemplate. This course of sprouts is humorously termed a fashionable pleasure excursion. It consists in a season of preparation and packing, of setting forth to join the innumerable caravan, and of several weeks of wretched unrest amid the dust, heat, crush and confusion of some popular resort where it is the correct thing for every one to go. 'there is nolittle humour in all this. They seek freedom from restraint, and go to a vortex of fashion, they seek' quiet, and are mingled in a Babel, they seek rest, and at the close of each day are ready to drop with fatigue. Gasping amid crowds on the hottest days, packed in overflowing hotels during the sultry nights, swindled by hackmen, bored by guides, pestered by humbugs, tormented by flies, - crushed wilted, worried, driven half mad - they, with infinite humour, term all this, pleasure. 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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