Temperance > Autobiography and personal recollections of John B. Gough

ORKNEY AND THE CONTINENT.
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■when we left, eight days after, so I only escaped by one
day an involuntary visit to Norway.
I had engaged to go to the Shetlands, but on the day
appointed for starting from Kirkwall, the wind blew such
a hurricane, that we were compelled to remain, and on the
29th we left those windy, treeless islands, with their
warm-hearted, hospitable people, and reached Edinburgh
on the 30th, somewhat worn by the trip.
We continued in Scotland, keeping house, till January
25th, making one trip to London for live lectures iu De¬
cember. These trips of four hundred and six miles were
very pleasant. We would leave Edinburgh at 8 o’clock
A.M., and reach London before 7 o’clock p.m., with a stop
of half an hour for dinner, and two ten minutes’ stops at
different stations.
We were back in London, February 1st, and rented a
furnished house at 8 Edith Grove, Brompton, visiting
towns in various parts of the country, till July 14th, when
we came home for a little rest; and having decided to visit
the Continent, left London on the 22d, at noon, for Paris,
arriving there at 11 o’clock p.m. of the same day.
Americans are becoming as familiar with Paris as with
New York, by personal experience, letters from friends,
the public journals, and the tourists’ published experi¬
ences; and my description of the “city of luxury” would
not be of interest, and is not needed.
We took rooms at the H6tel de Louvre. The next
morning we sallied out for exploration, and “did” the
“lions” as rapidly as one week would permit. We ob¬
tained our meals at a restaurant in the “Palais Boyal”
for the first two days, but afterward found our way to
Madame Basques’, who then kept a small eating-house,
famous for American cookery. On her sign were the
words, “Specialte de Pumpkin Pie,” and very delicious