Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson - Books - - 9798576072880 - December 25, 2020
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

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Book Excerpt: ...r market-place. To prove her good temper, one child after another was set upon her back to ride, and one after another went head over heels into the air; until a want of confidence began to reign in youthful bosoms, and the experiment was discontinued from a dearth of subjects. I was already backed by a deputation of my friends; but as if this were not enough, all the buyers and sellers came round and helped me in the bargain; and the ass and I and Father Adam were the centre of a hubbub for near half an hour. At length she passed into my service for the consideration of sixty- five francs and a glass of brandy. The sack had already cost eighty francs and two glasses of beer; so that Modestine, as I instantly baptized her, was upon all accounts the cheaper article. Indeed, that was as it should be; for she was only an appurtenance of my mattress, or self-acting bedstead on four castors. I had a last interview with Father Adam in a billiard-room at the witching hour of dawn, when I adminis...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 25, 2020
ISBN13 9798576072880
Pages 78
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 4 mm   ·   86 g
Language English  

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