Excerpt from Travel and Talk, Vol. 2 of 2: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through America, Australia, Tasmania, Canada, New Zealand, Ceylon, and the Paradises of the Pacific MY third voyage - I had just written so far how little man knows, especially on the ocean, what a day may bring forth (or bring up) As I drew near to New York Harbour, I plucked up courage to look back at my diary. There were awful gaps in those five days. I knew what they meant. Kathleen Who was Kathleen Once more I look over the Side of our giant ship along with the rest. We are still waiting for the mails off Queenstown - the sea is like glass - Kathleen, in a boat far down below, looks up, holding out Irish lace, shawls, &c., Hibernian textiles. Buxom, merry, saucy, pretty Kathleen, with your clear, ringing Voice. There are other red-checked, dark-eyed Irish girls with you, and a swain or two sorting the flounces and tippets - but you are the queen of barterers. Here's a fine piece Of lace for that lady beside you. Catch the rope, gentleman I'll position the basket. Pull it up; let the ladies see. Pass it round look at the pattem - the arms of Brian Boru, as I'm alive! And the blessed shamrock it will bring luck to the lady! What will you give? You shall take it for 355. 205. N o, sir I couldn't get the price of a turkey out of it. There, 303. No! Well, there's a good-looking gentleman beside you he shall have it for 281. I'm giving it away, sir, to you, because you're so handsome. Won't have it? Hope you'll be better looking next time. Well, there, lady, 2 to you! Take it up send us down the money, ' and the basket is lowered with the coin. 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.