Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-31

peat boys and sleek cattle and the
pig in the parlor-Aye, aye. Erin S
the emerald jewel of the sea.
Two Highlanders.
Crossing over again to Glasgow
we we're ready for Edinburgh. We
arrived at the Waverly station. /
set out to find place to sojourn.
leaving the boy sitting on the
goods. He called my attention to
several landmarks which would
guide me In finding him again. A
statue of Highlander in tartan
was Immediately in front Of him,
the booking office to the right, a
great clock just overhead
couldn't miss him.
With difficulty l engaged a
place, and returned TO the boy
that Is l thought / was returning
10 him. But went to the Princes
Street station, instead of the Wa
verify. There was the booking Of
flee, the Highlander and several
other familiar objects, all except
the clock and the boy. Omitting a
description of my feelings and ma
neuvers and dire despair, 1t will
suffice to state that q big Scotch
policeman asked few well-direct-
ed Questions, and then said: your
boy is over at the other station" |
squandered a good shilling to ride
in q cab over to the Waverly sta
tion--and there were all the points
of Observation-Disclosures a very
unhappy boy 1t was the time for
instruction, and he now command
ed me, in view of the many oppor-
tunities I should have for getting
lost during a series of years, always
to go Immediately to the police
station and there remain until he
came for me.
Coolies N Everything.
We roamed and studied and rest
ed and played and exulted in Ed
inburgh for one glorious month,
with a fire in the CRATE, fleas in
the beds, and a world of gimcracks
all over the walls. If it hadn't
been for the bottle of cement, we
should have been financially en-
barrassed. Here besides the red
tablecloth and the table, the land
lady cooked anything we brought
in and served it and washed the
dishes for us.
At the end of the month we were
able to send home our advanced
algebra, the boy having gone
through it from beginning to end,
ic and literature added. In fact he
! learned much more of school stud
! les than he would have done in
school, and had been seeing the
actual sights of Scotland and Ire
land-and how good he was and
handsome and glad and hopeful
Burns and Blackberries.
With our books and our Baede-
ker, we now set off for the land of
Burns. We crossed the bridge made
famous by Tam O'Shanter, read
| Burns under the wayside trees,
| picked blackberries in the hedges.
and loitered about the matched
cottage of the Immortal Bard. The
eating was the same on the red Ia
| blecloth. We took home some fine
tomatoes for the good wife of San
| dy to cook for US. When we took
off the lid of the tureen there were
the tomatoes, boiled whole in clear
water, like potatoes with the jack
cts on, not a crack in the skin!
We took our time to the rest Of
Scotland, with it's heather and its
castles and lakes and highlands,
its rain and mist and oatmeal por-
ridge. and every minute was de-
lightful.
There was much of interest In
| Merry Old England, and you are re-
ferred to many good books on the
subject to learn what we saw. Here
we gave especial attention to our
French, SO that we might not be
! too much handicapped when we
should cross the Channel. And we
studied about the great works of
art in Paris, remembering all I
| could from a former sojourn there.
We would see the Venus de Milo,
the Immaculate Conception, and
the whole array of wonders in
painting and sculpture. We read
Carlyle's French Revolution in
three volumes and then went over
to Paris to locate the scenes of the
great Revolution, to march out to
Versailles with the protesting wom-
en-. to stand by the place of the
guillotine, to visit the Louvre and
Luxemburg, the Tuilleries, the Pa
lais Royal, the Eiffel Tower, and
the Bon Marche.
No Red Tahecloth.
We studied logic and read Les
Miserables under the trees and by
the fountains at Versailles--those
fountains sprinkling the lawns
where once Louis the Fourteenth
made 1t snow in summer to please
French delicacies, not on any red
tablecloth-and paid for them.
Then we went to Italy, intending
to return to France at our leis-
ure and convenience.
First it was the exposition at
Turin, with not a single word of
Italian at the ends of our foolish
tongues. Nobody could understand
us. We were cold and hungry and
tired, and it was raining and dark.
with no Cooks agent in sight. 1t
was the boys turn to find hotel.
He utterly failed, for we did not
go to the expensive places, easy to
find. urged him to go info the
station restaurant and getB some
macaroni--which is the SAND in all
languages. stood by the goods
and it was almost raining from my
eyes. A tall italian came up with
sympathy. then hurried away, pres
emily returning with man who
could speak English. This man
kept little hotel and we gladly
went with him. Immediately we
became part Of his family, and
would fain have remained, so good
was 1t to find a friend.
With Money Left.
At his recommendation we went
from there to Bordighere, on the
Mediterranean and took a modern
lied flat. and stayed and stayed.
studying italian. and swimming,
and reading and taking up new
subjects and finishing old ones
and hains thankful we were alive