Another interesting point: The engine
does not say Choo-choo as in our country - it says Tut-tut.
Ninth - In England, for convenience in claiming your baggage, change
your name to Xenophon or Zymology - there are always about the
baggage such crowds of persons who have the commoner initials,
such as T for Thompson, J for Jones, and S for Smith. When next
I go to England my name will be Zoroaster - Quintus P. Zoroaster.
Tenth - If possible avoid patronizing the so-called refreshment
wagons or dining cars, which are expensive and uniformly bad.
Live off the country. Remember, the country is living off you.
Chapter VI
La Belle France Being the First Stop
Except eighty or ninety other things the British Channel was the
most disappointing thing we encountered in our travels. All my
reading on this subject had led me to expect that the Channel would
be very choppy and that we should all be very seasick. Nothing
of the sort befell. The channel may have been suetty but it was
not choppy. The steamer that ferried us over ran as steadily as
a clock and everybody felt as fine as a fiddle.
A friend of mine whom I met six weeks later in Florence had better
luck.
