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    The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy.
    The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy.
    The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy.
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    The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy.

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy.
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    Richard Doyle

    Richard Doyle is an old-school SF fan who began writing seriously in 2001. He has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and collaborated on a book in 2006. He has had poems published in the UK poetry magazines Orbis and Sarasvati and  is a regular member of the Bristol Stanza Poetry Group. His debut pamphlet The death of the sentence was published in 2020. Two of his poems appear in the Bristol Stanza pamphlet The Weather Indoors (2021).

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      The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy. - Richard Doyle

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      Title: The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson

      Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium,

      Germany, Switzerland & Italy.

      Author: Richard Doyle

      Release Date: July 20, 2009 [EBook #29463]

      Language: English

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      THE FOREIGN TOUR

      OF

      MESSRS. BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON.

      Title Page Text

      LONDON.

      THE MAIL TRAIN TO DOVER. BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON STARTING ON THEIR TRAVELS.

      OSTEND.

      AFTER A ROUGH PASSAGE, BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON ARE HERE SEEN LANDED AT OSTEND, SURROUNDED, AND A LITTLE BEWILDERED, BY THE NATIVES, WHO OVERWHELM THEM WITH ATTENTIONS—SEIZE THE LUGGAGE, THRUST CARDS INTO THEIR HANDS, DRAG THEM IN SEVERAL DIRECTIONS AT ONCE, ALL TALKING TOGETHER (WHICH PREVENTED THEIR DIRECTIONS BEING SO CLEAR AS THEY OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN)—AND, FINALLY, ALL EXPECTING MONEY!

      THEY ARE AT THE DOUANE, WAITING FOR THE OFFICIALS TO SEARCH THE LUGGAGE.

      ROBINSON AND JONES (ALARMED BY EXPRESSION OF BROWN’S COUNTENANCE). —WHAT’S THE MATTER NOW? BROWN (IN A VOICE OF AGONY). —I’VE LEFT THE KEY OF MY BAG AT HOME!

      OSTEND TO COLOGNE.

      A SKETCH MADE AT MALINES.

      HOW THEY SAW BELGIUM.

      COLOGNE.

      THE ARRIVAL AT COLOGNE.

      TRAVELLERS PASSING THEIR EXAMINATION. IN THE FOREGROUND IS JONES’S PORTMANTEAU UNDERGOING THE ORDEAL BY TOUCH.

      MANNER AND CUSTOM OF THE PEOPLE, AS SEEN FROM THE RAILWAY BY BROWN, AND MADE A NOTE OF.

      B. J. AND R., WHO TOOK THEIR PLACES ON THE ROOF THE BETTER TO COMMAND THE VIEW, ARE

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