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THE REJECTED OF HOTELS.
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same material, was in a similar condition, but not so
decidedly bricky. Besides this, there were many
mendings of my own, the stitches of which were large
enough to be distinctly visible to the naked eye, and
the colour of the thread was not exactly the same as
the material it held together; my last clean collar was
consumed, and my complexion was many shades darker
and redder than that of a civilized Caucasian : still, I
did not anticipate so unceremonious an expulsion, and
might have been indignant had not my sense of the
ludicrous prevailed.
Finding no other hotel or inn in the neighbourhood, I
made inquiry of a passer-by, who proved to be a
shoemaker, and a very civil fellow. He took me to the
nearest inn, where, in order to conciliate the authorities,
I ordered a bottle of ale before commencing my chief
negotiations; but it was of no avail, my boots and
trousers, wild beard and complexion, were too much
for them, and I was politely told that the house was full.
The shoemaker then conducted me to another house
of apparently still smaller pretensions, where another
bottle of ale and another application led to a like result.
We then crossed the bridge—which, according to the
shoemaker’s belief, is the longest and finest bridge in
the world—and boldly entered the second grand hotel
of Drammen. I called for a bottle of ale and asked
for the master: the latter came bearing the former; he
spoke English fluently, and said at once that he
perceived that I was a tourist who had been roughing it
up the country. I told him how I had been turned
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