The book The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment was written by author Grayson, David, 1870-1946 Here you can read free online of The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment a good or bad book?
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Automobiles there were in plenty, and loadedwagons, and jolly families off for town, and a herdsman driving sheep, and small boys on their way to school with their dinner pails, and agypsy wagon with lean, led horses following behind, and even a Jewishpeddler with a crinkly black beard, whom I was on the very point ofstopping. "I should like sometime to know a Jew, " I said to myself. As I travelled, feeling like one who possesses hidden riches, I camequite without warning upon the beginning of... my great adventure. I hadbeen looking for a certain thing all the morning, first on one sideof the road, then the other, and finally I was rewarded. There it was, nailed high upon tree, the curious, familiar sign: [ REST ] I stopped instantly. It seemed like an old friend. "Well, " said I. "I'm not at all tired, but I want to be agreeable. " With that I sat down on a convenient stone, took off my hat, wiped myforehead, and looked about me with satisfaction, for it was a pleasantcountry. I had not been sitting there above two minutes when my eyes fell uponone of the oddest specimens of humanity (I thought then) that ever Isaw.
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