Pat Crowe, Aviator (Volume 570); Skylark Views and Letters from France, Including the Story of "Jacqueline," (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... 30 Windows In Clouds I am falling behind with my narrative as is so often the case when I've been gadding about. It seems that the more I have to tell, the less time I have to tell it. I suppose I shall have to let the whole of that trip to Tours go by the board, eventful as it was, and take up some of my later voyages. Tours is a delightful city and some day I am going to attempt an appreciation of the place. I am grateful for the times I have sat out " Unter den Linden" in the shadow of Balzac's statue and sipped mousse fraise, which is the French for strawberry ice, and watched tout le monde, or at least all the little world of Tours, either passing or like myself sipping and smiling. I am grateful for the excellent Hotel of the Universe and its excellent cuisine and quiet little garden where one goes for his after dinner coffee. It would be a particular person who would not enjoy dinner au dehors among the box elders at St. Avertin by the Cher, but I am gratefulest for the discovery of Vouvray, which ripened on the sunny slopes across the Loire and aged in. those cool caves in the chalky cliffs where the blood of the grape is miraculously transmuted into liquid amber. I can never understand how Champagne got its reputation when there is also Vouvray. I discovered also on this last trip to Tours a new Park in the heart of the town which takes me back to Savannah. It is a little green island in a sea of houses. It is prim and formal and filled with adorable French children. Any mention of Tours now would be incomplete without the Beranger Gardens, the club for American officers provided by the Y. M. C. A., which is the nearest approach to a country club I ever saw in town. It is charming and is presided over by an even more charming Boston lady who come...