How Long Was He in Paris For?

Private strickland was fluent in french at school. But when he went to Paris for a holiday, his coat was returned by the real commissionere. He walked five days on the main road from paris to rouen and found an english collier steamer willing to give him a job as a stoker. Hired manual labour all the way across the atlantic to nova scotia and then back. At the very end of this voyage, not being able to spend any of the money he was paid as a stoke, so he had enough money to take a train up to london and to give some more thought to what he would do. In desperation,