Author: Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby

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Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781331748656

Excerpt from The American I Saw: In 1916-1918 Dear Reader, - You probably know all you ought to know about America: you arc full of the facts no gentleman's mind should be without. But have you ever wandered about America with nothing to do but to learn to love her? If you have, you have already learnt all that this 'thing in book's clothing' can tell you; if you have not, then come with me, and see her as I did. If you do this, I am sure you will forgive me for only giving familiar descriptions from a home diary. I do it as the best way of making you in some degree realise my two years' experience of the minute, gracious care which a passing stranger may receive in America. I always felt like Tobit in Perugino's picture, wandering over the world with successive angels holding my hand, leading me across every street; or, as an American might say, telling me 'where to get off, ' and 'when to come in out of the rain.' My whole heart is full of one big 'Thank you' to a country which has been so wondrously kind to me, that if you pin me down to one adjective to describe America, it would be lovable. 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.