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Title: Zigzag Journeys in Europe
Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands

Author: Hezekiah Butterworth

Release Date: August 1, 2010 [EBook #33319]

Language: English

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ZIGZAG JOURNEYS
IN
EUROPE.

_VACATION RAMBLES IN HISTORIC LANDS._

BY
HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.

BOSTON:
ESTES AND LAURIAT.
1882.

_Copyright_,
BY ESTES & LAURIAT,
1879.

[Decoration]

[Illustration: "THE BOY-KING."]

PREFACE.

The aim of the publishers and writer, in preparing this volume for
young people, is to give a view of the principal places in England and
France where the most interesting events have occurred; and, by a free
use of pictures and illustrative stories, to present historic views of
the two countries in an entertaining and attractive manner.

An American teacher takes a class of boys on a vacation tour to
England and France, and interests them in those places that illustrate
the different periods of English and French history. It is his purpose
to give them in this manner a picturesque view of present scenes and
past events, and to leave on their minds an outline of history for
careful reading to fill.

A few of the stories are legendary, as the "Jolly Harper Man" and the
"Wise Men of Gotham;" but these illustrate the quaint manners and
customs of the Middle Ages. Nearly all of the stories that relate to
history are strictly true.

The illustrations of history, both by pencil and pen, are given in the
disconnected way that a traveller would find them in his journeys;
but they may be easily combi