The adjustment back to "normal" life
May 8, 2013 8:27:08 GMT -7
Post by Leifer on May 8, 2013 8:27:08 GMT -7
"I ate the first civilized meal I tasted for many months, and enjoyed the usual luxury of eating at a table with a knife and fork; moreover sitting on a chair, which, however, I would gladly have dispensed with, for I had so long been accustomed to sit Indian fashion on the ground, that a chair was at first both unpleasant and awkward."
"Proceeding, on my arrival at St. Louis, to an excellent hotel called Planter's House, I that night, for the first time for nearly ten months, slept on a bed, much to the astonishment of my limbs and body, which, long accustomed to no softer mattress than mother earth, tossed about all night, unable to appreciate the usual luxury."
-- George Ruxton
"Proceeding, on my arrival at St. Louis, to an excellent hotel called Planter's House, I that night, for the first time for nearly ten months, slept on a bed, much to the astonishment of my limbs and body, which, long accustomed to no softer mattress than mother earth, tossed about all night, unable to appreciate the usual luxury."
-- George Ruxton