Download or read book Dublin Explorations and Reflections (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dublin Explorations and Reflections It was, I feel sure, with all the emotions of the explorer that I took my ticket for Dublin, pleased to be going to such a savage spot with out a revolver and armed only with sympathy and a curiosity which grew to fever pitch as the train hurried northwards and westwards through the sleeping countryside. The train was filled almost entirely with soldiers; there could not have been more than a dozen civilians on board. The men in my compart ment, after going through the soldier's charm ing ritual Of making friends - handing Wood bines to one another, exchanging comics, and so on - soon began the inevitable discus sion about scandals which seems to start whenever soldiers get together. They all gave their opinions as to what Should be done when the war was over. TO judge from their tone, the flight Of the entire Cabinet to America on the Day of Reckoning would (from the Cabinet's point Of view) be an advisable course If you ask me, 'said the sergeant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.