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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fields ofIndian corn began to disappear, and we reachedmore open country. Innumerable cross-roads con-fused us, while signboards appeared unknown. Ouronly hope lay in asking the way of people wehappened to meet, and many and varied were theanswers received. At one cross-road I stopped toinquire of an old wizened man, wheeling a barrow,the road to Como. To the right, Signore, heanswered. At that moment another and youngerman, carrying a large yellow melon, passed on theother side : on being hailed by Ken, he repliedunhesitatingly : To the left, Signore. Ken turnedto me: Tell the old gentleman with the barrowthat this man says its to the left, he said. Un-fortunately I did so, and as a result the old manimmediately commenced to argue with the youngman across the car. He of the yellow melon wasnot slow to take up the cudgels ; dropping his loadhe waved his two hands wildly and poured out astring of Italian too quickly for me to follow. Theold gentleman, despite his apparent years, was58
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A WAV Ioi; Till; iioAD IS (IT Ti I IK )r Im: Si\iiM/PN lA<s THE HIGHEST PASS IN EUROPE not to be outdone; leaving the barrow standing inthe road, he worked his arms like a semaphore andreturned the compliment. Several men and womenstrolled up, and taking sides, joined loudly in theconfab. Presently they varied their argumentswith abuse and tried to drown each others voicesby shouting. Go by the majority, Sheila cried, trying tomake her voice heard above the din. I nodded toshow I heard. On my side I counted three men,two women and five children. Ken had two men,four women, and three dogs on his. The old gentleman has it, I announced, andpressing down the accelerator, we slipped frombetween the contending parties. As we roundedthe bend we caught a last glimpse of the dispute wehad originated: the two sides, obviously careless ofour departure, were shaking their fingers under eachothers noses, and gesticulating wildly. The old gentleman proved cor

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