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In the Mikado's Service; A Story of Two Battle Summers in China
In the Mikado's Service A Story of Two Battle Summers in China Author:William Elliot Griffis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: W.A. Wilde Subjects: China Fiction / Classics History / General History / Asia / China Travel / Asia / China Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When y... more »ou buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. A RIDE ACROSS THE CONTINENT. IN spite of all that he had heard and expected to see in San Francisco, Jozuna was amazed at the vast size and altitude of the structures around him. The many-storied edifices and the long line of imposing dwellings overpowered him. He almost refused to believe that these were the results of human industry. To him they seemed rather the work of the gods. He wanted to walk in the middle of the streets, in fear lest they should fall down upon him. The cornices seemed to frown at him. As the two young men travelled across the country, they resolved, instead of taking the " long haul," going from one end of the country to the other, like an " original package " of freight, from consignor to consignee, to break their journey and see some of the places by the way. " I can't tell you about these Western cities," said his fellow-traveller to Jozuna. " They are not like those old ones on the Atlantic coast, where Boston goes for brains, New York for money, Philadelphiafor family stock, and Washington for political company, though I know that in Chicago they always ask what you can do. By the way, I heard an Australian at the ticket-office to-day asking to be booked to Chick-a-go. So prepare, old fellow, to be inquired of a good deal. You are in a land where they ask questions, though I'll warrant you nobody will inquire, as you Japanese always do, especially if it's a woman, ' How old are you ?' Please don't fire that interrogation at a...« less