Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-01-08

E/SHYAg " ession, as
wv though h e
I'D the universe and all things
hsreiu contained. He was The Tray-
.lod Monkey" and he appeared to be
'ahmittinr to the extravagant admira-
.0n Of an audience, to which he had
oeu relating his experience as a tourist
h foreign lands.
AZ how the picture pleased me huge
i and | would give five dollars for
,oDv of it now. 1t was copper-plate
.rcraying. and appeared as the frontis-
rlsce Of some magazine. In the half
century, that has elapsed since ! saw it |
s,ye travelled in many countries, and |
have never forgotten that picture. 1t
Rd an influence upon me, and | have
lied to avoid becoming the counterpart
,fthat monkey. But if the original has
,.ssed ont of view, i have seen that
came monkey hundreds of times in later
voars He is still in existence, and
some very intelligent and respectable
roople have some Of his weaknesses.
One of these weaknesses is mani
sp,ted when the travelled monkey en-
counters another tourist in foreign lands
,iter both have come home and settled
down to sober American life. His OBJ
;pctiye point is to mention some city,
cnarter or sight which the other has not
visited. andIthen tell him that he has
missed one of the most interesting and
ENJOYABLE sights in the Old World.
lam willing to confess that have
been the monkeys victim on more than
one occasion, for / do not profess to have
seen all there is to be seen abroad. /
an going to tell true story, though
the incident occurred in Italy, and not
after the return home of the tourists.
The gentleman who worked the affair
was by no means monkey, though he
certainly exhibited one of his traits.
. He was an eminently respectable person,
10 no end of American Ministers to the
Known in official life, and presented me
European courts. / shall call him
simply the Senator" / made his ac-
ouantance in st. Petersburg at the
dinner-table of the hotel. 1t was in
August, not long after the beginning of
The Franco Prussian war, and that great
event was the ordinary topic Of CONVEX
sstion.
The Senator was engaged in rather
exciting discussion of the rights and
wrongs of the belligerent nations with
an American gentleman at the head OF
the table. The Senator spoke my own
sentiments, and l said as much to him
alta venture. He was pleased to be in
dOrsed, and the result was that we
travelled together for about three
months. had fallen in with a young
s New Yorker in Sweden, and he was
one Of our trio for the most of this
period.
We went over Moscow together,
and then took the train for Mini Nov
gOrOd, where the great annual fair,
often described and illustrated in Amer
lean publications, was in progress. But
We decided not to explore the place then,
and continued on our way down the Volga
TO Kazan. We slept four nights on the
sofas Of the Russian steamer, and when
we got back to Mini the Senator was
suffering somewhat from the discomforts
Of travel, and was not in very good
humor
The New Yorker and myself were
anxious to see the great fair, Of which
we bad read and heard not little, but
to my surprise / found the Senator was
not in the least degree interested. With
Some difficulty we got a dinner at the
railroad station, intending to take the
train for Moscow that evening.
We walked over to the center of the
city, whore we found the fair in full blast,
and it was really one of the most novel
and interesting sights had ever seen,
and was sure we could put in three or
Tour hours very profitably in seeing it.
But the Senator insisted that it was a
humbug; there was nothing there which
could not be seen in the city OF New
York. ] pointed out the Cinnamon,
rersians and other Asiatics in full
efess and the piles OF odd merchandise,
specially caviar.
am sorry to say that the Senator had
NE bad habit of swearing like a trooper,
and did more of it than any trooper ]
ever met, and he INDUCED in food OF
expietiyes on this occasion. could not
argue with him, and / finally declared
mat had come to see the thing. and
intended to see il. He insisted that we
should 90 back to the station and sit
mere; he had seen enough Of the Fair,
,hough he had seen nothing of it. The
New Yorker sided with me. ] proposed
% the Senator that he should go into
zoe Bazar. where the bands were playing
ana the scene was enlivening. take a
seat and rest himself while we other
'eo went over the CITY.
No. with a string of expletivcsi. he
seald not be left alone.
After the storm had continued for
some time he decided to go with Us. but
oniy when he foi nd he could not prevent
Is nom going He followed Us for
eOaple Of hours, grumbling and growl'
ing al the time like a wounded bear.
ne made extensive drafts upon his
vocabulary Of explosives. and did not
s -, g indulge in many repetitions Of
theta.
We Tent on our way, and in October
Se we're in Florence. Here the Senator