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IN PASTURES NEW
BY
GEORGE ADE
TORONTO
THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED
1906
Copyright, 1906, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published, October, 1906
Copyright, 1906, by George Ade
Many of the letters appearing in this volume were printed in a syndicate of newspapers in the early months of 1906. With these letters have been incorporated extracts from letters written to the Chicago Record in 1895 and 1898. For the use of the letters which first appeared in the Chicago Record, acknowledgment is due Mr. Victor F. Lawson.
CONTENTS
In London
In Paris
| VII. | How an American Enjoys Life for Eight Minutes at a Time |
| VIII. | A Chapter of French Justice as Dealt Out in the Dreyfus Case |
| IX. | The Story of What Happened to an American Consul |
In Naples
| X. | Mr. Peasley and His Vivid Impressions of Foreign Parts |
In Cairo
In Cairo
| XX. | Mr. Peasley and his Final Size-up of Egypt |
IN LONDON
CHAPTER I
GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
It may be set down as a safe proposition that every man is a bewildered maverick when he wanders out of his own little bailiwick. Did you ever see a stock broker on a stock farm, or a cow puncher at the Waldorf?
A man may be a large duck in his private puddle, but when he strikes deep and strange waters he forgets how to swim.
Take some captain of industry who resides in a large city of the Middle West. At home he is unquestionably IT. Everyone knows the size of his bank account, and when he rides down to business in the morning the conductor of the trolley holds the car for him. His fellow passengers are delighted to get a favouring nod from him. When he sails into the new