New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-26
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&zrf7T 1s5FflUNcIE JOHN

''Now we'll walk around the whole thing.
haven't come abroad TO take life with hop skip
and jump; I've 10 be thorough, and want
You girls TO form the habit OF being thorough too
What didn't like about that fellow Edgar
his being thorough When he went down 20
look at the ships machinery he only stayed an
hour Now. didn't at all; but II I had gone,
should have STAYED more than hour Good Job
OF scanolding isn't il? You see. they make the
scaffoding out OF young trees wlthed together and
them and over. Economical. Just about
what you'd expect Of SibbiIly. Those gargoyles and
saints around the top stick their heads out pretty
interested like don't they? But their view IS for
the most part blocked. Now. this cheerful old Jail
the hack is the palace Of the archbishop. wish.
young ladies' that You would those little bits of
high windows and the good thick bars across them
Illustrating the secure faith that the dead and
gone archbishops had IN their loving people. I'll
bet there's been plenty of battering and rioting
around under these walls first and last: plenty of
fists and sticks and stones. It's big. isn't it? Big
half a block and things look so much bigger
here than they DO at home They slide a roof up
slsntng and cock fl full Of little crooked windows
and you feel as II you must tip backward
take in the top. 7 vow. don't Just how its
done; but-oh here's where 20 in. This dark
damp little stone paved alley is the celebrated
Portal des Libraries. called because those
arcades used 10 be fun of book stalls. We go along
the cobble stones. throw ourselves hard against
this little swinging door; Il creaks. Il yields
enter-hush,
Great Scott isn't it big. and isn't il damp?
VIII you loak up in that roof? feel solemn IN
spite Of myself; but thon. feeling solemn Is no
open those big iron gates, for the most Of what IS
10 see is IN back there Edna, YOU ask that man
how We car get hold Of some other man. We'll,
what did he say? Said 10 ask the Swiss did ho7
What does he mean by that? Is joke, OF can't
they trust a Frenclman with their old relics? I've
been told that in japanese banks they always havo
10 have Chinaman to handy the money and
maybe it's equally the thing IN a French cathedral
to have Swiss look after the relics. But the
guide book never said word about Swiss T. said
fee and I've got my pocket full OF them
We'll, where get Swiss? I should think
he'd be more handy than he appears TO be. There's
another looking for him. too. He-tireat
Scott, If II snt-no, that is impossible Yes, II is,
u beg your pardon, sir. but is your name Por-
ter? Yes? Robert Porter-Bobby Porter that
went 10 the Washington School? Bob do you
member me2 Well OF all the larks
Girls. this and I went TO school side by
side for eight years and he's the inest-my nieces
Bob. That's Edna and this is Yvonne and-you
don't say he's your son? Didn't know you ever
married. Oh I'll take your word for it. of course;
but, say, Bob. you've got TO and dine with
tonight. You must; WON'T have IL any other way
You and I'll have 10 just sit down and overhaul all
our old memories together. DO you reuember-but
how do you come 10 be in Europe. anyhow. and
what liner did you line up on? We had a beastly
trip-only came from Havre last highland by
the way, how in thunder can we get hold OF the
man who opens these iron gates? Everything in
the place is back there.
rs that a Swiss-that splendid circus chariot
driver? Give you my word. / thought he was a
cardinal How much Of Zip is that much gold
lace going 10 look forward to getting? / wish lie
was palmer. somehow. I'll tell you Bob; you pay
and I'll settle up later 1 certainly am glad TO see
the gates open; felt more like a serpent shut out
Of paradise than ever expected 70 feel in all my
life
We'll. now We begin. Who's buried here? Henry
II Of England. eh? 1 can't read Latin so Henry's
virtues and dates all one to me. Which Henry
was he, anyhow-the one with the SIX wives or the
one who never shed smile? Either way, let's
move
What comes next? Richard Coeur de Lion
petrihed, Ell? Oh, only statue of him; that's less
interesting. [ thought at last I was looking at
Richard when he was himself again. What is our
Swiss friend kissing about? Heart buried under
meath? Whose heart?-Richard's? Ask II it's his
bona hde heart or only death mask OF IL? Strikes
me as a pretty big statue 10 put up to a heart
don't you think. Bob? But come on I want 10 be
looking at something else.
80 this is the tomb Of the husband of Diana OF
Poiters? / didn't know she ever had a husband
thought she only had king. I've never been
brought up 10 think Of Diana of Poitiers mourning
a husband But maybe she did. maybe she did.
They say YOU must check your common sense at tho
hotel when you set out 40 inspect Europe and ]
they kneeI and mourn in gown with train she
certainly is doing it up brown However, let's
20 on.
Two cardinals OF AmbOise kind Of going in pro-
cession their knees their own dead bodies
or maybe It's only hearts again Well Bob the
a great thing, after ALL wasn't Il?
Must have felt fine 10 straghten up for a while
Stop bit the guide book said there was something
TO examine about these two-wait till find the
place. Oh well, never mind; I dare say guide
books very handy, but We quit this damp
old hole, anyway wouldn't bother TO come again
That's sad thing about life, Bob; soon as you
get in front Of anything and get square look at H.
you're ready 10 move on-.at least I am.
What's ne saying? Well, ask him again
Whose grave? Well, ask him again Rollo's, |
What Rollo that was At Work and AT Play and |
Al everything else when were kids? Another? |
What otheTe Well ask HIM Rollo tho Norman? |
don't SEE anything very remarkable in a Norman |
being buried in Normandy. do YOU Bob? when |
".n % one: Neh ask him. What We paying I
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