other method of travelling in France.

Let us conclude our remarks on this subject with an extract from the
published diary of a pedestrian, who thus describes his journey from
Lisieux to Caen, a distance of about twenty-six miles:--

'It is nightfall,' he says, 'before I have walked more than
half-way to Caen; to the left of the road I see a number of lights
indicative of a small town, but I perceive no road in that
direction, and so am compelled to trudge on. I was dreadfully
fatigued, for I had walked about Lisieux before starting. In the
faint light, I thought I saw a dog cross the road just before me,
but soon perceived that it must be a spectral one, the result of
excessive fatigue. At length I reach a lamp-post, with the light
still burning, indicating that I am in the suburbs of Caen. The
road proceeds down a steep hill. I don't know how long it would
seem to the visitor in the ordinary way, but to myself, prostrated
by fatigue, it appeared on this night a long and weary tramp.'--'A
Walking Tour in Normandy!'




CHAPTER XI.

_ARCHITECTURE AND COSTUME._


In the course of our little pilgrimage through Normandy, it may have
been thought that we dwelt with too much earnestness and enthusiasm on