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The astonishing thing to me was, that while this village was not twenty kilometres off the much-frequented air route between C and R , mine was the first aeroplane which most of them had seen. During long months at various aviation schools pilots grow accustomed to thinking that aircraft are as familiar a sight to others as to them.
The inn, when the party first came in sight of it, appeared more like a log cabin in America than like a well-known and much-frequented European hotel. It stood on a very small plot of ground, which formed a sort of projection on a steep mountain side, facing the Jungfrau. In front of the hotel the land descended very rapidly for a considerable distance.
Visiting what was then a much-frequented dining-place Mountford's, at Worcester, near the cathedral we sat next to a well-known hon. and rev. scholar of eccentric habits.
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