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Excerpt from Pen Pictures of Europe I shall hardly know how to behave when I get on shore, and find myself standing where I wish to, and things staying where I place them. The hood has been a comfort to me. Some of the ladies say that the hard pillows and the rolling of the ship have made their ears very sore; but my hood, besides being warm and comfortable and saving my ears, did me good service yesterday morning. I had put on my shoes, and arose to go on with my toilet, when the ship rolled over on one side, causing me to slide backwards to the sofa, on which I partly sat down, and hit my head on the window-frame but the thick, close border of the hood saved me from a severe bruise. It has been quite cold ever since I left New York, and I have worn my thickest clothing. There has been a great call every night for bottles of hot water, and I have been much amused to see how the stewardess manages to keep things warm. Convers ing with a lady who sat bolstered Up with pillows in one corner of the cabin, the stewardess came along and said, I'll only dis turb you a minute, and raising up the pillows, she pulled out a tea-pot and placed it on the table; then turning to me, Please, ma'am, will ye move a little I did so, and found some milk toast had been put under the cushions near me to keep warm. 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.