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                            NASBY IN EXILE:

                                  OR,

                         SIX MONTHS OF TRAVEL

                                  IN

             England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany,
                       Switzerland and Belgium,

                    WITH MANY THINGS NOT OF TRAVEL.

                                  BY

                            DAVID R. LOCKE,

                         (Petroleum V. Nasby.)

                        PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.

                          TOLEDO AND BOSTON:

                       LOCKE PUBLISHING COMPANY.

                                 1882.

                              COPYRIGHT,

                                 1882,

                          BY DAVID R. LOCKE.

                         ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

                     BLADE PRINTING AND PAPER CO.,
                        _Printers and Binders_,
                              TOLEDO, O.




PREFACE.


On the afternoon of May 14, 1881, the good ship "City of Richmond,"
steamed out of New York harbor with a varied assortment of passengers on
board, all intent upon seeing Europe. Among these was the writer of the
pages that follow.

Six of the passengers having contracted a sort of liking for each other,
made a tour of six months together, that is, together most of the time.

This book is the record of their experiences, as they appeared
originally in the columns of the TOLEDO BLADE.

It is not issued in compliance with any demand for it. I have no
recollection that any one of the one hundred thousand regular
subscribers to the TOLEDO BLADE ever asked that the letters that
appeared from week to week in its columns should be gathered into book
form. The volume is a purely mercantile speculation, which may or may
not be successful. The publishers held that the matter was of sufficient
value to go between covers, and believing that they were good judges of
such things, I edited the letters, and here they are.

The ground we went over has been gone over by other writers a thousand
times. We went where other tourists have gone, and what we saw others
have seen. The only difference between this book and the thousands of
others that have been printed describing the same scenes, is purely the
difference in the eyes of the writers who saw them. I saw the countries
I visited with a pair of American eyes, and judged of men and things
from a purely American stand-point.

I have not attempted to describe scenery, and buildings, and things of
that nature, at all. That has been done by men and women more capable of
such work than I am. Every library in America is full of books of that
nature. But I was interested in the men and women of the countries I
passed through, I was interested in their ways of living, their
industries and their customs and habits, and I tried faithfully to put
upon paper what I saw, as well as the observations and comments of the
party that traveled and observed with me.

I have a hope that the readers of these pages will lay the book down in
quite as good condition, mentally and physically, as when they took it
up, and that some information as to European life will result from its
perusal. As I make no promises at the beginning I shall have no
apologies to make at the ending.

It is only justice to say that much of the descriptive matter is the
work of Mr. ROBINSON LOCKE, who was with me every minute of the time,
and the intelligent reader will be perfectly safe in ascribing the best
of its pages to his pen.

I can only hope that this work, as a book, will meet with the same
measure of favor that the material did as newspaper sketches.

D. R. L.

_Toledo, Ohio, June 29, 1882._




ILLUSTRATIONS.


No.                                                                 PAGE

  1. FRONTISPIECE.
  2. The Departure                                                    18
  3. "Shuffle Board"                                                  22
  4. The Betting Young Man from Chicago                               24
  5. "Dear, Sea-sickness is only a Feminine Weakness,"                27
  6. Lemuel Tibbitts, from Oshkosh, Writes a Letter                   29
  7. Every Sin I Had Committed Came Before Me                         33
  8. Off for London                                                   35
  9. Public Buildings, London                                         36
 10. The Indian Policy                                                39
 11. The Emetic Policy                                                39
 12. A London Street Scene                                            45
 13. A London Steak                                                   50
 14. "And is the Them Shanghais?"                                     53
 15. Sol. Carpenter and the Race                                      60
 16. Leaving for the Derby                                            62
 17. By the Roadside                                                  64
 18. English <DW64> Minstrelsy                                         66
 19. The Roadside Repast                                              67
 20. The Betting Ring                                                 73
 21. "D----n the Swindling Scoundrel"                                 74
 22. Egyptian Room, British Museum                                    76
 23. A Bold Briton Trying the American Custom                         79
 24. A London Gin Drinking Woman                                      80
 25. The Poor Man is Sick                                             81
 26. "That <DW65> is Mine"                                            82
 27. St. Thomas Hospital                                              92
 28. Interior of a Variety Hall                                       95
 29. The Magic Purse                                                  98
 30. The Man who was Music Proof                                     100
 31. Madame Tussaud                                                  102
 32. Wax Figures of Americans                                        103
 33. "Digging Corpses is all Wrong"                                  105
 34. Improved Process of Burke and Hare                              106
 35. Isle of Wight                                                   107
 36. The London Lawyer                                               110
 37. The Old English Way of Procuring a Loan                         118
 38. "Beware of Fraud