Excerpt from Young Americans Abroad: Being a Family Flight by Four Young People and Their Parents Through France and Germany<br><br>In Jacob Abbott's travelling directions the instructions for finding a lost' boy are these: Look for him where the monkeys are. These directions Phil remembered. But there were no monkeys within a mile of the pier. Phil thought Of the steerage passengers.<br><br>He ran down the pier to the place where they were buying their tin mugs, and the rest of their outfit.<br><br>For, if you be a child of the public, and travel in the steerage, Europe requires none of the long preparations which luxury exacts. If you. Are SO fortunate as to travel as the masses do, you say at eleven o'clock, I think I will go across, and see the Old folks I You take an Eight Avenue car up-town, for five cents; you run to the ticket Office on the pier, as if it were the ferry to Jersey City, and you buy your ticket there. There is a woman handy at a bench, who will sell you a tin mug, a towel if you need, a basin if you are particular, and a brush and comb if you are luxurious; and having bought these, you go on board. AS you cross the gangway, the man in charge cries, All ashore! The landsmen leave the ship, and you cross the ocean and see your father. For the Homers, alas because they were more luxurious, more prepara tion had been necessary and so it was that they had lost Tom, and that Phil was in search of him.<br><br>But Phil's first dive for Tom was wrong. He was not buying a tin cup nor a wash-basin.<br><br>Here's your nice oranges, seven for a Shilling, said a stout woman holding an orange in one hand, and opening a paper box with another.<br><br>Phil did not lose his temper, but asked if a little boy had bought oranges. Not a boy had been near the place.<br><br>Phil looked for an Officer. Nobody but the uniformed men of the steamer were to be seen. They were amused, interested. But stupid; and spoke no language to any purpose, but French.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.