considerable brogue superinduced by her energy. "Where would it have
been at Basle if I had not been looking after it?" "Quite safe," said
Sophonisba; "those large things always are safe." "Are they, Miss?
That's all you know about it. I suppose your bonnet-box was quite
safe when I found it on the platform at--at--I forget the name of the
place?"

"Freidrichshafen," said Sophonisba, with almost an unnecessary amount
of Teutonic skill in her pronunciation. "Well, mamma, you have told
me of that at least twenty times." Soon after that, the ladies took
them to their own rooms, weary with the travelling of two days and a
night, and Mr. Greene went fast asleep in the very comfortless chair
in which he was seated.

At four o'clock on the next morning we started on our journey.


"Early to bed, and early to rise,
Is the way to be healthy, and wealthy, and wise."


We all know that lesson, and many of us believe in it; but if the
lesson be true, the Italians ought to be the healthiest and wealthiest
and wisest of all men and women. Three or four o'clock seems to them
quite a natural hour for commencing the day's work. Why we should
have started from Chiavenna at four o'clock in order that we might be
kept waiting for the boat an hour and a half on the little quay at
Colico, I don't know; but such was our destiny. There we remained an
hour and a half; Mrs. Greene sitting pertinaciously on the one
important box. She had designated it as being smaller than the