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English Innkeepers

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
October
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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If yoiir pocketbook allows or fate or the desire to see the country compela you to rema in in England, there are parts wbore yon can ride on your wheei with grea.. satisfactiou and at great expense. Noshiugcould be more beautiful thau the midlands, lovelier than the counties that svirround London, but westward go no farther than Bristol or Truro, northward than Chester, avoiding Manchester - that is, unlcss you ruean to go still farther north into Scotland, which at times will repay yotu: enterprise. The southwest is largely to be avoided. Cornwall and Devon have the worst roads in civilized Eiu'ope - in fact, the roads aud inns explain that the country is not and never has been civilized. In the inns you are often treated as an intruder, and sometimes cheated in a fashion that would bring a blush to the cheek of a Swiss landlord, for the emptiness of the larder the bill raakes up in lavishness. There is hardly anything to eat save cream, but for tixat and salt bacon and ancient eggs you are asked to pay as much as for a good dinner at the Cafe Royai The innkeepers are mainly boors. As for the roads, they go straight to the top of all the hills, as uncompromisingly as the roads of Bohemia, theii drop down the other side and are unridable in both dii-ections. When not climbing precipitately, they lie buried at the bottoui of a diteh. They are shadeless and uninteresting, rarely approaching the seacoast or passing near auything that is worth looking at, and yet we know Englishmen who are profoiuidly impressed with the belief that they are the best in Englaud, and therefore in the world. The roads, inns and innkeepers of Scotland are in every way better, but the fact that the average Briton spends kis holiday on the continent when he eau proves not only that he wants to get there, but also that he is driven from his own country by the shortsightedness of the people who keep

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