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*END THE SMALL PRINT! FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.10/04/01*END*
Prepared by Kirk Pearson
, with help from the
volunteers at the Distributed Proofreaders project.
Europe Revised
by Irvin S. Cobb
To My Small Daughter
Who bade me shed a tear at the tomb of Napoleon, which I was very
glad to do, because when I got there my feet certainly were hurting
me.
Note
The picture on page 81 purporting to show the undersigned leaping
head first into a German feather-bed does the undersigned a
cruel injustice. He has a prettier figure than that--oh, oh, much
prettier!
The reader is earnestly entreated not to look at the picture on
page 81. It is the only blot on the McCutcheon of this book.
Respectfully,
The Author.
Chapter I
We Are Going Away From Here
Foreword.--It has always seemed to me that the principal drawback
about the average guidebook is that it is over-freighted with
facts. Guidebooks heretofore have made a specialty of facts--have
abounded in them; facts to be found on every page and in every
paragraph. Reading such a work, you imagine that the besotted
author said to himself, "I will just naturally fill this thing
chock-full of facts"--and then went and did so to the extent of a
prolonged debauch.
Now personally I would be the last one in the world to decry facts
as such.
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