Front matter

Holds it the same as a slide trombone

IN PASTURES NEW

BY

GEORGE ADE

TORONTO THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED 1906

Copyright, 1906, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Published, October, 1906 Copyright, 1906, by George Ade

Many of the letters appearing in this volume were printed in a syndicate of newspapers in the early months of 1906. With these letters have been incorporated extracts from letters written to the Chicago Record in 1895 and 1898. For the use of the letters which first appeared in the Chicago Record, acknowledgment is due Mr. Victor F. Lawson.

CONTENTS

In London

CHAPTER

I. Getting Acquainted with the English Language

II. A Life on the Ocean Wave, with Modern Variations

III. With Mr. Peasley in Darkest London

IV. How it Feels to Get into London and then be Engulfed

V. As to the Importance of the Passport and the Handy Little Cable Code

VI. What one Man Picked up in London and Sent Back to His Brother

In Paris

VII. How an American Enjoys Life for Eight Minutes at a Time

VIII. A Chapter of French Justice as Dealt Out in the Dreyfus Case

IX. The Story of What Happened to an American Consul

In Naples

X. Mr. Peasley and His Vivid Impressions of Foreign Parts

In Cairo

XI. Cairo as the Annual Stamping Ground for Americans and Why They Make the Trip

XII. Round about Cairo, with and without the Assistance of the Dragoman or Simon Legree of the Orient

XIII. All about our Visit to the Pyramid of Cheops

XIV. Dashing up the Nile in Company with Mr. Peasley and Others

XV. Day by Day on the Drowsy Nile, with Something about the Wonderful Hassim

XVI. The Mohammedan Fly and other Creatures along the Nile

XVII. In and around Luxor, with a Side Light on Rameses the Great

XVIII. The Ordinary Human Failings of the Ancient Moguls

XIX. Royal Tombs and other Places of Amusement

In Cairo

XX. Mr. Peasley and his Final Size-up of Egypt