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There was no means of getting either railroad time table. I looked 

 on the only way-map I could find of France, and found that Dieppe 

 was the nearest accessible point and that there was RR. communi- 

 cation between the two places. So I started Sunday afternoon for 

 London to take the Dieppe boat I got to London at 12 P. M. 

 went to bed got up at 5, breakfasted, took the 6 A. M. train for 

 Dieppe, got there about 2 P. M. asked the R R man what was the 

 proper way to go to Falaise nobody seemed to know but on the 

 whole they seemed to think the only way was to take the train for 

 Havre, so I took that got to Havre at 12 P M slept there took 

 the boat for Honfleur at 8.30 the next morning and finally arrived at 

 Falaise at about 5 P. M. Distance about I should think 50 miles 

 the French R R. do not make connections, on the contrary they 

 evidently think that time is of no consequence On arriving at 

 Falaise I got a boy to show me the house of M. Bertrand the "priseur" 

 found him and found to my disgust that the sale had been deferred 

 to the middle of September I went to the chateau Lafresnaye, which 

 is very pretty saw Madame and the two Misses Lafresnaye told 

 them in as good French as I could muster and as politely as it was 

 possible that it was a humbug and a mistake to put off the sale 

 which they assured me had been done to satisfy some other parties. 



