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A Tramp Abroad

by Mark Twain

Pages
about 569
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
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1.   PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.   TITIAN'S MOSES 3.   THE AUTHOR'S MEMORIES 4.   THE BLACK KNIGHT 5.   OPENING HIS VIZIER 6.   THE ENRAGED EMPEROR 7.   THE PORTIER 8.   ONE OF THOSE BOYS 9.   SCHLOSS HOTEL 10.  IN MY CAGE 11.  HEIDELBERG CASTLE 12.  HEIDELBERG CASTLE, RIVER FRONTAGE 13.  THE RETREAT 14.  JIM BAKER 15.  “A BLUE FLUSH ABOUT IT” 16.  COULD NOT SEE IT 17.  THE BEER KING 18.  THE LECTURER'S AUDIENCE 19.  INDUSTRIOUS STUDENTS 20.  IDLE STUDENT 21.  COMPANIONABLE INTERCOURSE 22.  AN IMPOSING SPECTACLE 23.  AN ADVERTISEMENT 24.  “UNDERSTANDS HIS BUSINESS” 25.  THE OLD SURGEON 26.  THE FIRST WOUND 27.  THE CASTLE COURT 28.  WOUNDED 29.  FAVORITE STREET COSTUME 30.  INEFFACEABLE SCARS 31.  PIECE OF SWORD

One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot. After much thought, I decided that I was a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle. So I determined to do it. This was in March, 1878.

I looked about me for the right sort of person to accompany me in the capacity of agent, and finally hired a Mr. Harris for this service.

It was also my purpose to study art while in Europe. Mr. Harris was in sympathy with me in this. He was as much of an enthusiast in art as I was, and not less anxious to learn to paint. I desired to learn the German language; so did Harris.

Toward the middle of April we sailed in the HOLSATIA, Captain Brandt, and had a very pleasant trip, indeed.

After a brief rest at Hamburg, we made preparations for a long pedestrian trip southward in the soft spring weather, but at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train.

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