Jerome K. Jerome
Diary of a Pilgrimage
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Excerpt: ...should not buy a cat in a sack,-as if there were a large class of consumers who habitually did purchase their cats in that way, thus enabling unscrupulous dealers to palm off upon them an inferior cat, and whom it was accordingly necessary to advise against the custom. I skimmed through all this nonsense, but not a word could I discover anywhere about a savoury omelette. Under the head of Eating and Drinking, I found a short vocabulary; but it was mainly concerned with raspberries and figs and medlars (whatever they may be; I never heard of them myself), and chestnuts, and such like things that a man hardly ever wants, even when h…
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Excerpt: ...should not buy a cat in a sack,-as if there were a large class of consumers who habitually did purchase their cats in that way, thus enabling unscrupulous dealers to palm off upon them an inferior cat, and whom it was accordingly necessary to advise against the custom. I skimmed through all this nonsense, but not a word could I discover anywhere about a savoury omelette. Under the head of Eating and Drinking, I found a short vocabulary; but it was mainly concerned with raspberries and figs and medlars (whatever they may be; I never heard of them myself), and chestnuts, and such like things that a man hardly ever wants, even when he is in his own country. There was plenty of oil and vinegar, and pepper and salt and mustard in the list, but nothing to put them on. I could have had a hard-boiled egg, or a slice of ham; but I did not want a hard-boiled egg, or a slice of ham. I wanted a savoury omelette; and that was an article of diet that the authors of this Handy Little Guide, as they termed it in their preface, had evidently never heard of. Since my return home, I have, out of curiosity, obtained three or four English-German Dialogues and Conversation Books, intended to assist the English traveller in his efforts to make himself understood by the German people, and I have come to the conclusion that the work I took out with me was the most sensible and practical of the lot. Finding it utterly hopeless to explain ourselves to the waiter, we let the thing go, and trusted to Providence; and in about ten minutes the man brought us a steaming omelette, with about a pound of strawberry jam inside, and powdered sugar all over the outside. We put a deal of pepper and salt on it to try and counteract the flavour of the sweets, but we did not really enjoy it even then. After breakfast we got a time-table, and looked out for a train to...
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-60055-2
- EAN: 9781153600552
- Produktnummer: 14787513
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 40 S.
- Masse: H25.2 cm x B19.5 cm x D1.5 cm 104 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 104
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