A Walking Tour in Normandy (Electronic book text)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3textit{A WALKING TOUR IN NORMANDY. CHAPTER III. textit{An old customtextit{A clean captextit{Department of Euretextit{Villages of St. Maclon, Tontainville, and St. Germaintextit{About the roads textit{Distance between Beuzeville and Pont AudemerJVo textit{English theretextit{Description of the towntextit{Banks of the Rille textit{Good fishingtextit{Hotel Pont d'Etain-gProvincial broguetextit{Nature of Norman townstextit{Epaignes, Cormeilles, and Hcrmival textit{A short cuttextit{Distance between Pont Audemer and Lisieux Re-enter Calvadostextit{Lisieuxtextit{Old streets textit{Cathedral textit{Church of St. Jacquestextit{Gardenstextit{Carbontextit{A halttextit{Distance between Lisieux and Caentextit{Reflections on the Conquest textit{Roadside innstextit{A spectral dogtextit{A humble wishtextit{Suburbs of Caentextit{The midnight hourtextit{Enter the streets of Caentextit{Solitude of a great citytextit{Search for the Hotel d'Angleterretextit{A friendhj guideA modest wish, though not realizedtextit{To the rescue. textit{Sunday, Sept. 6th. At half-past five o'clock this morning some gendarmes were beating drums all through the town; but whether for military purposes, or in pursuance of an old custom, to wake the inhabitants, I could not discover. While at breakfast a townswoman entered the inn, and my host textit{A CLEAN CAP. directed attention to her cap, which rose in a pyramidal form about half a yard above her head. It was beautifully clean and white, and the woman was pleased at the stranger's attention being directed to her cap, which was no doubt her Sunday best. After breakfast I started for Pont Audemer. The country is pleasing, but without anything particularly interesting. Shortly before reaching Beuzeville I passed out of the department of Calv...