Show ROSE TO THE OCCASION the american girl art amial ann bd to win alic trick A man who Is back from a visit to paris and germany la telling a story which to make the great american eagle flap hla wings with pride it happened at a little railway station in germany grunenwald by name while the man who tells about it was waiting for a train on a branch line which connects with the main line at that place resides himself there were at the station a party of american tourists of the kind you read about in english books and an english family of the kind you read about in american books the americans were loud voiced and ungrammatical they laughed a great deal and they ate peaches the stones of which they threw at a post to test their marksmanship they were persons tor whom uncle sam himself would have felt apologetic and they displeased the haughty british greatly to the younger members of her family a gawky boy and a lanky and leggy girl of tho typical elongated english variety they were objects of great interest however and the girl in particular edged nearer and nearer to her mothers great disgust at last she was so near that mamma could endure it no longer clara she called in her loudest voice come away at once you might be mistaken for one of those disgusting americans A pretty young american looked up and swept clara from head to foot with a calm glance then she went on eating peaches dont worry madam she called out cheerily theres no danger of that with them feet washington post |