IN PASTURES NEW

GEORGE ADE

TORONTO
THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED
1906

Copyright, 1906, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published, October, 1906
Copyright, 1906, by George Ade

Many of the letters appearing in this volume were printed in a syndicate of newspapers in the early months of 1906. With these letters have been incorporated extracts from letters written to the Chicago Record in 1895 and 1898. For the use of the letters which first appeared in the Chicago Record, acknowledgment is due Mr. Victor F. Lawson.

CONTENTS

In London

CHAPTER
I.	[Getting Acquainted with the English Language]
II.	[A Life on the Ocean Wave, with Modern Variations]
III.	[With Mr. Peasley in Darkest London]
IV.	[How it Feels to Get into London and then be Engulfed]
V.	[As to the Importance of the Passport and the Handy Little Cable Code]
VI.	[What one Man Picked up in London and Sent Back to His Brother]

In Paris

VII.	[How an American Enjoys Life for Eight Minutes at a Time]
VIII.	[A Chapter of French Justice as Dealt Out in the Dreyfus Case]
IX.	[The Story of What Happened to an American Consul]

In Naples

X.	[Mr. Peasley and His Vivid Impressions of Foreign Parts]

In Cairo

XI.	[Cairo as the Annual Stamping Ground for Americans and Why They Make the Trip]
XII.	[Round about Cairo, with and without the Assistance of the Dragoman or Simon Legree of the Orient]
XIII.	[All about our Visit to the Pyramid of Cheops]
XIV.	[Dashing up the Nile in Company with Mr. Peasley and Others]
XV.	[Day by Day on the Drowsy Nile, with Something about the Wonderful Hassim]
XVI.	[The Mohammedan Fly and other Creatures along the Nile]
XVII.	[In and around Luxor, with a Side Light on Rameses the Great]
XVIII.	[The Ordinary Human Failings of the Ancient Moguls]
XIX.	[Royal Tombs and other Places of Amusement]

In Cairo

XX.	[Mr. Peasley and his Final Size-up of Egypt]