THE BUMP OF TRAVELLING.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 57, 27 October 1875, Page 3

THE BUMP OF TRAVELLING.

«€► British manners and customs ever prove a fertile source of amusement to Gallic critics, and a French contemporary has now been chaffing what he calls our “sixth sense,” the hump of travailing. He maintains,' however, that we do not travel always for the love of,the thing and tells the following story as a proof : “ Twenty years ago a Liverpool steampacket company wanted to extend its premises, .and resolved to buy a piece of land bdon ging to a maiden of an ‘an uncertain age.’ The spinster sold her land at a very low price, and as a set-off requested that a danse should be put in the agreement to the effect that during her whole life she and a companion should at any time travel free in the company’s vessels. The day after the agreement was signed she sold her furniture, let her lion.se, and went on board the first outward hound vessel belonging to the company, without troubling herself about tbe destination. Since then the lady has always lived on one ship or another, acco.np inied by some lady travel hr, for whom she advertises, and whoso passage money she pockets. She is reckoned to have made over £2,000 by the transaction, and the company have offered upwards of this sum for her privilege, but cannot get quit of her at any price.”