A Frenchman in America: Recollections of Men and Things

· 1903

DEPARTURE--THE ATLANTIC--DEMORALIZATION OF THE "BOARDERS"--BETTING--THE AUCTIONEER--AN INQUISITIVE YANKEE. In the order of things the _Teutonic_ was to have sailed to-day, but the date is the 25th of December, and few people elect to eat their Christmas dinner on the ocean if they can avoid it; so there are only twenty-five saloon passengers, and they have been committed to the brave little _Celtic_, while that huge floating palace, the _Teutonic_, remains in harbor.…

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