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Publisher: Singbooks
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL.
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s soon as Mr. George and Rollo issued from the door of their hotel into
the street, which was very narrow and without sidewalks, so that they
were obliged to walk in the middle of it, a young man, plainly but neatly
dressed, came up to them from behind, and said something to them in Ger-
man. He was what is called a commissioner, and he was coming to offer to
act as their guide in seeing the town.
Nearly all the travelling on the Rhine is pleasure travelling. The strangers
consequently, who arrive at any town or city by the steamboats and by rail-
way, come, almost all of them, for the purpose of seeing the churches and
castles, and other wonders of the place, and not to transact business; and
in every town there is a great number of persons whose employment it is
to act as guides in showing these things. These men hover about the doors
of the hotels, and gather in front of all the celebrated churches, and in all
public places where travellers are expected to go; and as soon as they see a
gentleman, or a party of gentlemen and ladies, coming out of their hotel,
or approaching any place of public interest, they immediately come up to
3 JACOB ABBOTT
them, and offer their services. Sometimes their services are valuable, and the
traveller is very ready to avail himself of them, especially when in any par-
ticular town there is a great deal to see, and he has but little time to see it.
At other times, however, it is much pleasanter to go alone to the remarkable
places, as a map of the city will enable any one to find them very easily, and
the guide book explains them in a much more satisfactory manner than any
of these commissioners can do it.
The commissioners generally speak French, English, and German, and after
trying one of these tongues upon the strangers whom they accost, and find-
ing that they are not understood, they try another and another until they
succeed.
The commissioner in this case addressed Mr. George first in German. Mr.
George said, Nein, meaning no, and walked on.
The commissioner followed by his side, and began to talk in French, enu-
merating the various churches and other objects of interest in Cologne, and
offering to go and show them.
No, said Mr. George, I am acquainted with the town, and I have no need
of a guide.
Mr. George had studied the map and the guide book, until he knew the
town quite well enough for all his purposes.
You speak English, perhaps, said the commissioner, and then proceeded
to repeat what he had said before, in broken English. He supposed that Mr.
George and Rollo were English people, and that they would be more likely
to engage him as a guide, if they found that he could explain the wonders to
them in their own language.
Mr. George said, No, no, I do not wish for a guide.
Dere is die churts of St. Ursula, said the commissioner, persisting, and
die grand towers of die gross St. Martin, which
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