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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Flight in Spring, by J. Harris Knowles This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 Author: J. Harris Knowles Release Date: September 3, 2010 [EBook #33620] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FLIGHT IN SPRING *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: OUR HOST.] A FLIGHT IN SPRING IN THE CAR LUCANIA FROM NEW YORK TO THE PACIFIC COAST AND BACK DURING APRIL AND MAY, 1898, AS TOLD BY THE REV. J. HARRIS KNOWLES NEW YORK 1898 SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR FREDERICK HUMPHREYS, M.D. No. 750 COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY J. HARRIS KNOWLES Dedication _TO THE LUCANIANS_: "THE KING AND THE QUEEN" "THE APOSTLE AND THE ANGEL" "THE FAIRY PRINCESS" "JUNO AND PSYCHE" "THE GYPSY QUEEN" "THE PRINCESS" "MINERVA AND JUPITER" "MERCURY," AND "THE SPANISH COUNT" THESE RANDOM JOTTINGS OF OUR HAPPY "FLIGHT IN SPRING," ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THEIR FRIEND "THE POPE" CONTENTS I PAGE The Circumstances of the Flight.--The Start.--The Car "Lucania."--The Kitchen.--The Cook.--The Poetic Dinner.--Our Accommodations.--Visitors at Newark.--Improvised Theatricals.--Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington.--The Approaching War Crisis 1 II On through the South.--Thomasville, Georgia.--Dr. Humphrey's Winter Home.--Southern Flowers.--The Old Plantation.--War Declared.--They Leave To-day 8 III Departure from Thomasville.--Pet Superstitions.--Montgomery, Alabama.--The Capitol.--The Public Fountain.--Montgomery to New Orleans 15 IV New Orleans.--Surviving Traces of Spanish and French Occupation. --Jackson Square
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