City--I Sit on the Tribunal, 311

XXXVII.--Ann Arbor--The University of Michigan--Detroit
Again--The French Out of France--Oberlin College, Ohio--
Black and White--Are All American Citizens Equal? 322

XXXVIII.--Mr. and Mrs. Kendal in New York--Joseph Jefferson--
Julian Hawthorne--Miss Ada Rehan--"As You Like It" at
Daly's Theater, 330

XXXIX.--Washington--The City--Willard's Hotel--The Politicians--
General Benjamin Harrison, U. S. President--Washington
Society--Baltimore--Philadelphia, 332

XL.--Easter Sunday in New York, 342

XLI.--I Mount the Pulpit and Preach on the Sabbath, in the State
of Wisconsin--The Audience is Large and Appreciative; but I
Probably Fail to Please One of the Congregation, 347

XLII.--The Origin of American Humor and Its Characteristics--The
Sacred and the Profane--The Germans and American Humor--
My Corpse Would "Draw," in my Impressario's Opinion, 353

XLIII.--Good-by to America--Not "Adieu," but "Au Revoir"--On
Board the _Teutonic_--Home Again, 361

A FRENCHMAN IN AMERICA.

CHAPTER I.

DEPARTURE--THE ATLANTIC--DEMORALIZATION OF THE "BOARDERS"--BETTING--THE
AUCTIONEER--AN INQUISITIVE YANKEE.

_On board the "Celtic," Christmas Week, 1889._

In the order of things the _Teutonic_ was to have sailed to-day, but the
date is the 25th of December, and few people elect to eat their
Christmas dinner on the ocean if they can avoid it; so there are only
twenty-five saloon passengers, and they have been committed to the brave
little _Celtic_, while that huge floating palace, the _Teutonic_,
remains in harbor.

Little _Celtic_! Has it come to this with her and her companions, the
_Germanic_, the _Britannic_, and the rest that were the wonders and the
glory of the ship-building craft a few years ago? There is something
almost sad in seeing these queens of the Atlantic dethroned, and obliged
to rank below newer and grander ships. It was even pathetic to hear the
remarks of the sailors, as we passed the _Germanic_ who, in her day, had
created even more wondering admiration than the two famous armed
cruisers lately added to the "White Star" fleet.

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