Outing . ed so close in many instances that wecould have jumped into the house fromthe car, or shaken hands with the every instance, however, while themotor attracted a great deal of attentionwe had nothing but pleasant salutationsand greetings, notwithstanding we fre-quently made the flocks of geese andchickens scatter to right and left, andhurried the bunches of protesting pigs outof our way. At Avranches we overtook our friendsfrom Waterbury, who had gone on thenight before from Bayeaux through toAvranches instead of stopping, as we had,at St. Lo. We had much difficulty infinding
Outing . ed so close in many instances that wecould have jumped into the house fromthe car, or shaken hands with the every instance, however, while themotor attracted a great deal of attentionwe had nothing but pleasant salutationsand greetings, notwithstanding we fre-quently made the flocks of geese andchickens scatter to right and left, andhurried the bunches of protesting pigs outof our way. At Avranches we overtook our friendsfrom Waterbury, who had gone on thenight before from Bayeaux through toAvranches instead of stopping, as we had,at St. Lo. We had much difficulty infinding the Grand Hotel de France at deLoudre, a little house with a big name,where we had agreed to meet, as it wastucked in around the corner of a narrowstreet and was approached through anentrance which gave no indication what-ever of its being the approach to thelargest hotel of the place. We adopted on the outskirts of Avran-ches our usual plan of hiring a small boyto ride with us on the car and direct us to. In old St. Lo, where we paused to inquire our way. 54 The Outing Magazine the hotel. We found this the best way inevery place where we desired to reach aparticular spot, or even go through thetown. There are always small boys to befound and their delight at riding in themotor is doubled by the few coppers whichthey accept with many expressions ofMerci, Monsieur. In several instances,however, we found that the small boy wasup to his pranks or else was trying to get alonger ride. In one town in particular alittle chap whom we had employed for thepurpose took us no less than four timesacross the town, and each time, when wegot to the outskirts, would protest that hedid not understand us, although from themerry twinkle in his eye once or twice dis-covered, I imagine that he was putting upwhat he thought was a most excellent andwell executed joke, by which he secured along motor ride and became the envied ofall of his chums. After an hour spent in the attractiveflower-filled court
Size: 1469px × 1700px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade, booksubjectsports, booksubjecttravel
