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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 3...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...ion of beer (a commission on each bottle), and protests that she sings the songs allotted to her nightly without more than the vaguest notion of their... ... And the prayer was heard. As I bowed back, the butt of the rod on my left hip-bone and the top joint dipping like unto a weeping willow, he turned an...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...eived by the chil dren of the different free schools, ‘singing Temperance Songs.’ I was prevented from getting there, in time to hear these Little Wa... ...heir inhabitants more wan and wretched than any we had encountered yet. No songs of birds were in the air, no pleasant scents, no moving lights and sh... ...in his right thigh. The shot entered on the outside, halfway be tween the hip and knee joints.’ ‘Brought to jail, John. Left ear cropt.’ ‘Taken up, a...

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...the way, my brother may come down here—locate here, I mean—and go into the hop- raising business. He’s got an option on five hundred acres just back o... ... a while, his anger somewhat subsided. “My brother and I will take up this hop ranch. I’ve saved a good deal in the last ten years, and there ought to... ...d into the road which turned abruptly northward and led onward through the hop-fields and the Quien Sabe ranch toward the Mission of San Juan. The Hom... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ...nd carried his coat over his shoulder; a hammer was thrust into one of his hip pockets. He was in execrable temper. The day’s work had fagged him out.... ...ittle longer, understand? And don’t let me see you make a move toward your hip or your friends will be asked to identify you at the morgue to- morrow ... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers... ...t coat, vest or collar, his blue silk suspenders hung in loops over either hip, his hair was disordered, the crown lock stiffer than ever. “Glad to se...

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...gnorant, but she knew the piano well enough to accompany the old-fashioned songs she had sung for thirty years. Uncle William used to tell Philip that... ...am used to tell Philip that when he was a curate his wife had known twelve songs by heart, which she could sing at a moment’s notice whenever she was ... ...ram and his wife. After tea Miss Graves played one or two of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, and Mrs. Carey sang When the Swallows Homeward Fly , o... ... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ... He had done the same thing for ten years. He took his whole fam- ily to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny’s home, and they spent three w... ...lf. He suggested that Philip should join him and his family in the Kentish hop-field to which he went every year; and to persuade him said various bea... ...ught of the fortnight he was go- 752 Of Human Bondage ing to spend in the hop-field: he was happy at the idea of seeing his friends again, and he re-...

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...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...ain 38 they would ever learn to perform their functions in such remote and unaccustomed localities. They then set my left arm in two places, pulled my... ...dangers of the deep, and kindred matters; but as the gray east began to redden and the mysterious solemnity and silence of the dawn to give place to t... ...of the Rhine (The Lorelei) THE LAST LEGEND REMINDS ONE of the “Lorelei”—a legend of the Rhine. There is a song called “The Lorelei.” Germany is rich i... ...word LIE) in the Rhine, and lure boatmen to destruction in a furi- ous rapid which marred the channel at that spot. She so bewitched them with her pla... ...ment the surgeon took a grip on the candidate’s tooth and began to lift, every one of those five hundred rascals would clap his hand to his jaw and be... ...n of a slouch hat, whose broken rim hung limp and ragged about his eyes and ears like a bug-eaten cabbage leaf, stared indifferently around, then lean...

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...he barbarian, and all his parade; feasts precede battles, fine dresses and songs decorate and enliven the field; and the young soldier comes to camp b... ... village, junketing and gossiping, they are said to go on a malanga. Their songs have announced their approach ere they arrive; the guest- house is pr... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...devotion and audacity have been spent in vain. His name still lives in the songs of Sa- moa. One, that I have heard, tells of Misi Ueba and a bis- cui... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...d; I cut his head off.” “You shot him?” “No, somebody else shot him in the hip. When I came, he put up his hands, and cried: ‘Don’t kill me; I am a Ma...

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... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ... it with some emotion. The conductor stood on the steps with one hand on his hip, looking back at him; and perhaps this attitude imposed upon the crea... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...hear the guitar accompany, and one of these old, heart-breaking Spanish love-songs mount into the night air, perhaps in a deep baritone, perhaps in th... ...y looking at this book. Here, I open it with my eyes shut. Read one of these songs – read this one – and tell me, you who are a man of intelligence, i... ...eir tooth- less gums. Sunt lacrymae rerum: this was the most eloquent of the songs of Simeon. And when a man has lived to a fair age, he bears his mar...

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...literature and music, he had a passion for old folk-music, collecting folk-songs and folk-dances, studying the Morris-dance and the old customs. Of co... ...e finer, in his way the stronger, played with his garden, and his old folk-songs and Morris- dances, just played, and let her support the pillars of t... ... fire with the friends and with Winifred’s sisters, and they sang the folk-songs. He put on thin civilian clothes and his charm and his beauty and the... ... grey at the temples. He wore a well- cut, well-fitting suit of dark grey, American in style, and a turn-down collar. He looked well-to-do, a fine, so... ...mas, by a scoundrel and a bully as has led a life beyond mention, in those American mining-camps, and then wants to come back and make havoc of a poor... ...m. And he heaved and swayed, and they crashed about the room, the soldiers hop- ping, the furniture bumping. The young soldier had got the rope once r... ...w kitchen. He dropped his cap on the table that was covered with yellowish American cloth, and took a seat with his back to the wall, near the oven. H...

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...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...d instruments drew 50 Around the World in 80 Days nearer, and now droning songs mingled with the sound of the tambourines and cymbals. The head of th... ... trees, and soon its last ranks disappeared in the depths of the wood. The songs gradually died away; occasionally cries were heard in the distance, u... ...bering multitude became animated, 57 Jules Verne the tambourines sounded, songs and cries arose; the hour of the sacrifice had come. The doors of the... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ... where they stood, and there were frantic shouts of, “Hurrah for Mandiboy! Hip, hip, hurrah!” It was a band of voters coming to the rescue of their al...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...first light of the dawn, on the heads of cloaked fig- ures; Winchesters on hip; bridle hands protruding lean and brown from under the falling folds of... ...ada of the Mexican Domingo; or to sit in the place of honour, listening to songs and looking at dances, made it appear to him as a town that had no ex... ...ing off with his smart, lame walk, vanished utterly at the third or fourth hop in the direction of the railway track. Ar- rested between the two woode... ...land. The labouring gangs returned to port every evening, sing- ing chorus songs in the empty lighters towed by a harbour tug. For the moment he had n...

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...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...’m going to buy out the store!” He gloated on fly-rods and gorgeous rubber hip-boots, on tents with celluloid windows and folding chairs and ice-boxes... ...lieve me! So I lets it go at that. Well, the clerk wakes a nice young bell hop—fine lad—not a day over seventy- nine years old—fought at the Battle of... ...the sob-stuff,” said W. A. Rogers genially. “You boys know I’m the village songster? Come on now sing up: Said the old Obadiah to the young Obadiah, ‘... ...ng him. As for the party, it was as fixed and standardized as a Union Club Hop. There was to be dancing in the living-room, a noble collation in the d... ...d occasionally, and he re- membered rumors of their drinking together from hip- pocket flasks. He tiptoed round the house, and in each of the dozen ca... ...ing. The things they 250 Babbitt saaaaaay! But, believe me, I know how to hop those birds! I just give um the north and south and ask um, ‘Say, who d...

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...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...reat original — the Tyre of this Carthage; — the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aborig... ...lid ox. And if he were not lively about it, if he did not go with a nimble hop skip and jump, then Tashtego had an ungentlemanly way of accelerating h... ...I must have partners! Sicilian sailor. Aye; girls and a green! — then I’ll hop with ye; yea, turn grasshopper! Long Island sailor. Well, well, ye sulk... ...acings of the limbs — lithe sway ings — coyings — flutterings! lip! heart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye, else come sa... ...ange, after all, on that account,” said Flask. “If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has... ...eg and Arm The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London S hip, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?” So cried Ahab, once more hailing a s... ... that might puzzle a little; but a mere shinbone — why it’s easy as making hop poles; only I should like to put a good finish on. Time, time; if I but ...

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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...lid ox. And if he were not lively about it, if he did not go with a nimble hop- skip-and-jump, then Tashtego had an ungentlemanly way of accelerating ... ... I must have partners! Sicilian sailor. A ye; girls and a green!—then I’ll hop with ye; 172 Moby Dick yea, turn grasshopper! Long-island sailor. Well... ...interlacings of the limbs—lithe swayings—coyings— flutterings! lip! heart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye, else come sa... ...ange, after all, on that account,” said Flask. “If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a differ- ent thing. That would disable him; but he h... ...e; that might puzzle a little; but a mere shinbone—why it’s easy as making hop- poles; only I should like to put a good finish on. Time, time; if I bu... ...en gone round again, without a lesson to me. “Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high as- piring, rainbowed jet!—that one strivest, this o...

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... on his, a troop of mercenaries! And that lands me in Red Republicanism, a hop and a skip from Socialism! said Mr. Radnor, and chuckled ironi- cally a... ...e horrification of the prim. So to refresh ourselves, by having publicly a hip-bath in the truth while we shock our hearers enough to be dis- credited... ...e,” as the man announced her on the Concert platform, undertook one of the songs, and sang another of her own-pure contralto voice, as you will say; w... ...She understood the portent of Mr. Barmby’s hovering offer of the choice of songs, and the recent tremu- lousness of the welling Bethesda. But she had ... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ..., is not peculiar to the Marquesan. What is peculiar is the wide- spread depression and acceptance of the national end. Plea- sures are neglected, the... ...e people sang for us in Anaho, they must apologise for the smallness of their repertory. They were only young folk present, they said, and it was only... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...e long-run, and I am sure it is far more becoming than the ignoble European practice of tight-lacing among women. And now it has been found needful to... ...pplied the wherewithal, he who superintended the cooking, he who asked grace at table, and when the king’s health was proposed, he also started the ch...

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...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ... warn’t sorry, neither. “But next night about half past nine, when there was songs and high jinks going on, here she comes again, and took her old roo... ... law that was often broken. All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the bac... ...he half naked crews of perspiring negroes that worked them were roaring such songs as “De Las’ Sack! De Las’ Sack!”—inspired to unimaginable exaltatio... ...and by. He was standing musing on a street corner, with his left hand on his hip, the thumb of his right supporting his chin, face bowed and frowning,... ... lodges.’ So he sat down. Then, in turn, they took the drum, and sang their songs, and closed with a feast. The youngest told them not to whisper the...

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...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...airie, we arrived at the skirts of a little wood that was enlivened by the songs and flight of a large number of birds. “There are only birds,” said C...

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... into a credit to your country if you don’t take care.” “I know it. I’m an American-first, last, and all the time. I’ll show ‘em that when I strike Eu... ...v course, Disko,” said Long Jack. “Guess there ain’t more’n ‘baout two old songs I know , an’ ye’ve heerd them both.” His excuses were cut short by To... ...Norway, but I didn’t make that unwholesim noise. ’Tis like some of the old songs, though,” said Long Jack, sighing. “Don’t let’ s hev another ‘thout s... ...or three days on end sometimes, though he played checkers, listened to the songs, and laughed at the stories. When they tried to stir him up, he would... ...ted him as a brother. Then the trade began. They had tobacco, plenty of it-American, that had never paid duty to France. They wanted chocolate and cra... ...It was stifled at once, and a girl staggered out of the hall. She had been hop- ing against hope for months, because some who have gone adrift in dori...

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...nt to the nervous woman writ- ing under a sharp necessity for payment. Her songs were shot off on the impulsion; prose was the heavy task. ‘To be poin... ...se when he struck he struck hard, he said. And he has a wound on the right hip and two fingers off his left hand; has bled for England, to show her wh... ... tors, bent upon scoring the country to the likeness of a child’s lines of hop-scotch in a gravel-yard. As with all invalids, the pleasure of living b... ...r 75 George Meredith housed safely. The packet of provision bulged on his hip, absurdly and blessedly to her sight, not unlike the man, in his combin... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... vocal. Diana sang alone for the credit of the country, Italian and French songs, Irish also. She was in her mood of Planxty Kelly and Garryowen all t... ...cular persons famous for inspiriting. It sticks and clogs. The improvising songster is missed, the convivial essayist, the humorous Dean, the travelle... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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...with red sashes and tight clothes, looking on superbly, with a hand on the hip and a cigar in the mouth. These must be the chief critics at the great ... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ...ch. But it was the music that was most touch- ing I thought,—the sweet old songs of home. There was a considerable company assembled:near a hun- dred ... ...y, screaming “yallah” with the most frightful shrieks, and singing country songs— galloped along ahead of me. I acquired one of his poems pretty well,...