The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-19

depths. That is. they appear SO. They
are probably ten feet, unfathomable in
some places and six or eight or ten treach-
erous feet in others.
They have fire for our special benefit
when we return to Windsor. 1t is in one
OF the small streets on the road to Elton I;
hre-engine comes dashing down the
street. 1t is as diminutive as en- electric
launch and q young swell In boating
clothes drives it like four-in-hand. 1t
comes bravely on, however, with little
weak ''choo-choo" in its throat and a vol
unteer ire brigade at its heels. There is
very great excitement apparently and
rybody is the fire brigade, little Eton
boys and big rivermen. Everything is
pitched from the windows; the furniture
appears to consist largely OF chairs. They
attempt to lower an old piano, very small.
with large painting of flowers on the
front, but it sticks in the window and the
ingenuity stops here.
The street grows more and more
crowded, but traffic is not at all inter-
rupted; hose is pulled out from cart
and pump is worked by twenty men and
boys with great cheerfulness and good
Will. There is no smoke and no flame,
but there must be fire. Some one informs
as it is behind all these housefronts, some
where in some hidden court The soldiers
come down from the castle with another
stretch of hose ana every body cheers; real
fremen in big brass helmets add reality to
the scene, which is as bewildering as a
stage battle.
We finally retire, as well as we may,
| ka IN he
skirts of which gypsy man and woman
with hurdy-gurdy shout and drone
Paradise Alley" An hour or so later we
saw the young swell in the boating COS
tune driving his steam launch home for
dinner.
Dinner is ready for US in the Biiou Inn.
and we reflect upon its comforts and the
fact that we have discovered it, and we talk
q great deal about the charms of sim
pie and tumble life, and how we
are above the vulgarity of desiring
aristocratic surroundings, great hotels
and their suggestions OF great people.
and here the waitress comes in and says
to our Mrs. Gainsborough, in voice in
tense emotion has made audible: 1.-THE
Lord Ugh Chancellor is comm, the Lord
Ugh CHANCELLOR
The Lord Ugh Chancellor has missed
the train, and is evidently better &C
quainted than we with the Bijou Inn.
There are but few guests, but we all
glance furtively at the Lord Ugh Chancel-
lor and examine his family with equal de-
light; we have momentarilv put aside oul
'umility. 1t is quite thrilling to follow
the courses of the dinner and to know pos
itively, without question or doubt, that
Lord Ugh Chancellor can drink ginger
beer.
Sunday in Windsor is not without SOL
emn attraction. The steep streets under
the irowning castle, even in the calm ano
almost deserted silence of the Sabbath
have a suggestion of subdued gayety, like
child's graver face. And in the morning
sunlight, with the black trees under the
gray walls, there is more than sugges
ton of an Italian morning.
Walk over the bridge to Elton, with al
the Elton boys going to chapel (f you are
alive in carriage it costs you I'd, if yo1
are dead in carriage it costs you 6s Sd
so for mercenary reasons it is wiser t,
WALK, follow the sharp black and white o
the little figures over the irregular pave
ments, under the oyerhanging roofs anS
gables, all overgrown with ancient ivy
and yor will turn at last into a walk shaded
by great trees, into the quadrangle o
Elton College.
One youthful aristocrat, with the man
ners of duke, points us the way, answer
our numerous questions and goes at on
request to inquire whether we may atten'
the services and hear the choir. We re
mark in his absence upon the differenc