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MILAN, GENOA, VENICE. Wall, at last, under the fosterin’ care of Martin, we wuz conveyed along into Italy and put up to a place called Milan. But one memory of our way thither stands out as plain in …
COLOSSEUM AND CATACOMBS. It wuz jest as beautiful in Rome—magnificent palaces, cathedrals, picters, statutes, tapestry, mosaics, articles of virtue of all kinds, and immense gateways leadin’ into new…
FASHIONABLE WATERING-PLACES. Mr. Goldwind, one of Martin’s business rivals. Wall, in the streets of Naples Martin met a man that he knew at home—a man most as rich as Martin—a Mr. Goldwind, a sort of…
CATHEDRALS AND CASTLES IN SPAIN. I wuz not sorry to be on the train agin on our way to Irun, which wuz the first town of Spain we entered, and here we wuz ushered into the Custom House. Our baggage w…
JOSIAH’S DEVOTION. Wall, another day we went to see the Carthusian Monastery, founded four hundred years ago by Queen Isabella—Christopher Columbuses Isabella—the intimate friend of America (owin’ to…
THE QUEEN, ULALEY, AND A BULL-FIGHT. Wall, we had a very fatiguin’ journey, durin’ which I will pass over the sufferin’s of my pardner from the hot, dry climate, the ever-present pangs of hunger, tha…
A SPANISH FUNERAL AND A JONESVILLE ONE. While we wuz in Madrid we felt that we ort to anyway visit the Escuriel, that immense palace and monastery built by Philip II. He got skairt, so I wuz told, an…
AL FAIZI SAYS GOOD-BYE. Wall, the very next day, follerin’ and ensuin’ after our visit to the Escuriel, Martin gin orders for the march. We wuz to git back to London at the rapidest rate possible, an…
HOME AGAIN, FROM A FOREIGN SHORE. Jonesville wuz bathed in the rosy hue of sunset when Ury let down the bars and we passed up into the lane leadin’ to our dear home—that sweet, restful haven, into wh…
MARTIN’S TERRIBLE LESSON. Wall, I found that Martin wuz as immovable and sot as a rock. “As for Alice,” sez he, “I told you six months ago what I should do, and I never change my mind.” And agin I se…
