alarming size and sonorous qualities. Numerous men and boys
tramped along in wooden sabots which made a most unearthly
clatter. Even little girls wore them, though otherwise their dress
was not unusual. Outside one shop hung many of the clumsy foot-
gear, the price explaining their evident popularity.

Signs over shops were as often French as English and sometimes
both. At one corner, the party met a man ringing a bell and
uttering a proclamation in French. At the next corner he stopped
to announce it in English and the interested boys found that he
was advertising a public auction. No one else seemed in the least
attentive to his remarks.

Fifteen minutes' loitering through narrow, ill-paved streets,
crowded with hurrying people and a great number of dogs, brought
the four to an open square of irregular shape with a gilded statue
at one end. Its curious draperies caught Win's observant eye and
he walked around it thoughtfully.

"What a very queer costume!" he remarked as he completed his
circuit. "What is it doing on a statue of an English king?"

Win spoke aloud, not noticing that the others were beyond hearing,
but his inquiry was answered by a gentleman who chanced to be
passing.

"It is a Roman statue," he volunteered, "rescued from a shipwreck.
The thrifty Jerseymen considered it too good to be wasted, so they
gilded it and placed it here in the Royal Square in honor of
George the Second."