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. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... their feet in a dry ditch, eating their midday meal, was enough to give any one a pleasure in the sight of tough cheese and brown bread for the rest of his days. They had stout hearts, our friends; but one of them, at least, was not a practised walker, and after dinner they made less way, and it was harder ...
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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. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... their feet in a dry ditch, eating their midday meal, was enough to give any one a pleasure in the sight of tough cheese and brown bread for the rest of his days. They had stout hearts, our friends; but one of them, at least, was not a practised walker, and after dinner they made less way, and it was harder work than ever to pass the tempting roadside inns without stopping to give an opinion on their brewers' merits, while each shady bank and bit of wayside turf had an inviting look that they both found hard to withstand. They grew silent, too, and once, when they stopped to rest and smoke, Cam's pipe fell from his lips, and his head lay back, his limbs meanwhile relaxing into as sound and dreamless a slumber on the dusty grass as if he had been a tramp from childhood. He awoke soon, freshened and ready; but they were neither very sorry when they had reached the spot which they had previously fixed upon as the limit of their first day's journey--a little roadside village among the hills, where they might safely reckon upon trout for supper; and, by the time they had bathed and supped, it was tacitly agreed that the next best thing they could do was to go to bed. They were up betimes next morning and off again, through the same and other varied scenes of this, the people's holiday of labour. It must be admitted that there was a certain degree of sameness in their second day's journey; that it lacked the perfect charm of novelty that distinguished the first; that such little troubles as a tight shoe or a blistered heel were found sufficient temporarily to cloud it; that they both applied themselves to their pipes as a solace rather than as the means of putting a perfect edge upon their enjoyment, and found it possible to come to a halt by a gate or...
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Add this copy of Footsteps Behind Him, Volume II to cart. $44.95, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by BiblioBazaar.
Add this copy of Footsteps Behind Him, Volume II to cart. $47.02, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by BiblioBazaar.
