Show seeing g france with uncle jok john 11 1 L I 1 by ANNE WARNER UNCLE UNC JOHN EN ROU ROUTE gisors visors well here we got out III awing swing down first it if french trains were american have bave trapezes trape ies or ele ie latars to get out by here give a your band yvonne oh ob theres edna well I 1 TOW vow who haa has aha she got ot it it isa t tY yvonne vonne that that young man machow how de do edgar delighted to see you again our friend mrs Bray tree and all the others are her ber daughters come edna you come with me mo while I 1 check this trunk where in thunder did you get that fellow tellow from how does he come to be in rouen did you know he was in rouen did you see sea him while he was as there I 1 declare I 1 never will travel with any women again unless I 1 am married to them this la Is awful dont ou know I 1 im m responsible for you two girls and I 1 send you ahead to get a compartment and you find edgar it makes me want to abear aw ear say bay was there any one else with you worse and worse yea yes mrs Bray Dray tree here we are again and now well all proceed over olsons pretty place don dont t you think picturesque did you ever see so many canals or smell so many 7 and the little cottages out of 0 another century packed roofs green trees well sweeps I 1 like this im glad I 1 had the sense to come here lets levs turn down here moat most of the streets seem to he be canal ranal tow path I 1 vow tow thia this Is to pretty I 1 could settle down in a place like thia this and live till I 1 died what do you suppose the people here do to amuse themselves any how from the way they look at us with their mouths moths open I 1 should ira im achue that we yere vere regarded in the light ot of a great event and it the case they must be pretty hard up where is the church ask some acme a NN bat did she say may down herat down we go then ah I 1 that it under the sidewalk dewalk el wee N ce commanding situation for or a church to grade a street by ita its tower why don dont t they put in the guidebook guide book street commands a fine view of 0 tho rooer there lent ume time to eo go inside unless mrs Bray treo tree miss her train and we dont want her to do that this Is the street to the gare and wa we 11 run right along I 1 expect we can get something to eat there and get that 1 30 train for beauvia there anything in beauvais Reau vals that would interest you mrs Bray tree but theres a church there that I 1 want to see the guidebook guide book says that mr ruskin says that the root roof baa has got a clear vertical fall that not many rocks in the alps can equal I 1 dont just know what a clear vertical fall may mar be b but if it theres a churcott anywhere near as high as an alp I 1 dont want to mss ass seeing it theres the clock you lust just have time to get aboard comfortably dont you want to go with them edgar well I 1 thought maybe you might good by good by delighted delight td to have met you good by oh yea yes of course in paris there gone darn era emt I 1 now let a get same lunch did you ever seen such a collection aa as those girls it must have been a bitter pill when after managing to assimilate the looks of the three oldest the little one appeared with her eyes laid out bias bing come in here we can get something to eat here bere I 1 dont care what but I 1 want plenty I 1 like these count country ry hotel entrances through a carria carriage gip house and a duck yard fall over a cat V V TIE abir N IS e tell her we want dinner for four and prompt for port sport oh well I 1 presume its enough tor for them to paddle about on the green waters and stir up the ml latna lama aa as much sense as tor to eIgners have and so there are the walls wal laram ram parts I 1 mean well thyre fairly high wonder how high they are anyhow I 1 lets find a gate and go in seems to be a park inside I 1 should think there was little left to be seen of 0 the castiel cast lol I 1 dont see anything at all of it maybe they took it down and built the walls higher just to fool foot tourists well I 1 dida t come to visors to caper about in a park let lets 0 go out and look at the church the guidebook says the church lu Is worth seeing I 1 think theres something very touch ing about abo ut guidebook guide book enthusiasm it 1 keeps up tip so consistently right through to the end I 1 feet as if my own o en was most run through now I 1 don t know how paris will affect I 1 me I 1 I 1 vow im disappointed in givers as a whole I 1 wish wed gone to les Us I 1 Ali andelys delys instead lda andelys is i marked with an asterisk in the guide book and theres a castle there built i by coeur de llon lion uy by the way mra mrs Bray tree the coeur de lion itself la Is burled buried in rouen did you know that nice joke eba eh hut but dear dear it if theres no castle here when we get here perhaps there d be none there when we got there im beginning to took upon europe as a confidence same 1 well is that the castle t great but it must have been big its big yet ava the book took said there was very little left to see im beginning to lose faith in that book picturesque idea having the park hide the ruins t till you come richt right smash on to them clever people the french franch make e everything v ery thing put the best foot foremost st fine old round tower nice tumble down guard chamber chamberl I 1 like this lets leta go around the other side great puce place eh worth a trip to see ee there do you see that looks roman to me what do you think I 1 tell you a man could write an his novel out of old ruins if it he be pro prowled led loan long enough come on 04 now lets meander oo 00 down town and look at the church As soon as t look at anything im always ready to look at something else lets levs go out an this tide side and nd go back to town the other way and come in tell her we want din ner for four and prompt you put that in good forcible french tor for me edgar and be grateful to you till I 1 die leta lets sit down lets eat cat beauvalis Bea Beau uvala vals mcw young people 1 call this making a day count this la Is my ide idea of getting about breakfast in rouen lunch in galaora beauvais for a band sand and we II 11 dine in paris parts ahat time la Is it three well we want to head for that cathedral seems aa as if it ought to show most anywhere over a little low J beauvais town like this but I 1 dant see it it ask some sonie one ank any one welt well what did jhc thc aay any right across the square whose statue la Is that in the middle joan of are jeanne hachette girl who captured flag from charlea charles the bohl bom eh Is that why they called him the bold sort of sarcastic nn on his letting a girl girt car carry off hie his flag I 1 should consider well when did she live lias ha at eh got her year under her 1492 seventy years after joan t have thought hed shed have inspired other younk young omen in this part of 0 the country to emu I 1 late her do wo we go up here ugh bow how I 1 bate walking over cobblestones e stones tones clean ft or course clean I 1 stir that I 1 thought they were dirty I 1 said t Z hate hated to walk aft dav en that chopped ott oft cr tAtIon cre atlon before ua us not the cat cathedral well weil 1 I vow I 1 la in that what I 1 what wi where e the front of it what did happen to it 11 and what avas mr vaskin a thinking thinking of when ho he co neared it to rn en alp I 1 dont want to tall off of anywhere but id choose the rot of of that cathedral to from any day in preference to the lowest alp they make clear vertical fall eh I 1 wish I 1 kaew knew nhat bat that meant well lefa lets go on where wheres the dohrl door that little unpretentious one looks feasible como come on an I 1 must any say the biggest thing about thie this church Is that blank wall rg up where they left off oly this Is the kind of thing ive come several thousand miles to look at ie in it well may ae as well go K in I 1 suppose so thie this Is 1 in the fine lot of carpets hung up to try and cover the deficiencies eb clip high roof tun fun ny ur sort of shock you get whenever you look towards the front girls this cathedral wee begun in 1180 1130 aln of V what that Chop chopped off creation before Us U henry 11 II and they quit in 1555 while bloody mary wae was abroad and never got to the front end in the years well well I 1 der dwar learl come on girl girls we may as well go out I 1 feel like going to the station and beading for paris I 1 suppose the next move in the game you can stay here as long al you like edgar we wont hurry you come yvonne you walk with me did you ever see anything like that young mans gall your friend lee make any points around him just hooks books right on to us and stays hooked gare du nord paris so thia this la in paris parisi 1 tell that blue blouse to take these checks and look up five trunks in a hurry what did he say we haven t got to overhaul ove raaul them again here havo have wet we well I 1 am I 1 certainly juet just am I 1 hive live we got to hunt lem up where ask him hound back of this crazy mob well hellm to go first thia this system of speculate epe culat ins wheat pit pits baggage counters eh and will you look at the baggage I 1 talk about your clear vertical falast those trunks on top will wilt eoon soon know more than ruskin ever did where wheres our man gone yvonne do you know where that fellow went to well aak ask some one look out that baggage truck will be jugger jogger right over you before you know it now where ie Is the porter I 1 ivull all this a pretty state of porter vali ses and trunk checks all gone together I 1 thought you were watching him or I 1 would have done eo so do you suppose we ought to speak to a policeman I 1 think we ought to hut but will you look took at the trunk an un locking going on good as a play look how mad that old lady Is hear her give it to him in good pug lish guess something got broke in transit keep a sharp eye out for that porter yvonne here como come some more trunks and more and more yet wonder iwonder I 1 if it this is regular or if it weve struck a rush where Is that porter I 1 think we ought to be speaking to a policeman dont youl you heres a choice new invoice of a couple of thousand more trunks that fellow will never bo be able to find ours I 1 know lug he lie has found them and gone off with them already hey look at that lady jumping up and down she sees her trunk ill bet a dollar well id jump up and down it I 1 coull see mini mint yvonne I 1 really think we ought to seak to a policeman could you give a description of the man I 1 only remember that he wore a blue blouse ob yes and he be bad had commissionaire Commission alre across the front of his cap hello here are nine all at once a few tow million more additions to the tu tufi tirRill coll I 1 tell you we wont get out 0 of here tonight to night I 1 dont believe belleve r really think we ought to be calling 4 police man here are 14 trucks all loaded to the gunwales gunzales gun wales and two mass meet ings and one convention of tourists all at once yvonne this la Is beginning to look serious to me I 1 think that really we ought to call ob oh there be he is in with the whole of af the stuff on one truck good idea smart chap and he so 20 very long either considering |