The West-Brook Drives (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The West-Brook Drives This is always the part read last. Somehow, however, we wish to inform the reader that this veritable history was really written surreptitiously. True, the reporter carried her note book very conspicuously; but she was never known to write anything in it; and it became a joke with our party that her note book did not note anything. The fact was, she used a peculiar short hand of her own, and with her book and pencil concealed under the light carriage robe, jotted down everything as it occurred. Then when the rest of the party were looking after the horses, or taking their ease in a hotel, she, the reporter, was translating the fresh scrawls. Thus it happened that sometime after the return home, there began to appear in a local paper these identical travels. If the judge and the rest of the party had known " there's a chile amang ye taking notes," they could never have talked so freely and to such purpose. The result was that when they saw themselves so naturally in print they were the most astonished people in the world. It had its little effect even on strangers, as the following incidents show. One day the reporter went as all Philadelphia ladies do, to the market for the family provisions. At one farmer's stand she ordered a gallon of vinegar. "How much is it?" she asked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.