hed the
shore. The place where they landed was in a cove formed by a point of
land, where there was a little inn near the water. As soon as the boat
reached the shore Mr. George and Rollo leaped out of it, and spreading
their umbrella they ran up to the inn.

They waited here nearly an hour. They sat on a piazza in front of the
inn, listening to the sound of the thunder and of the wind, and watching
the drops of rain falling on the water. At length the wind subsided, the
rain gradually ceased, and the sun came out bright and beaming as ever.
The party then got into the boat, and the boatman pushed off from the
shore; and in an hour more they all landed safely on the quay at
Lucerne, very near to a magnificent hotel.

Our two travellers were soon comfortably seated at a table in the dining
room of the hotel before an excellent dinner, which Rollo had ordered.
Mr. George told Rollo, as they took their seats at the table, that he
had performed his duty as a courier in a very satisfactory manner, and
had fully earned his pay.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 15: Pronounced _shallay_.]

[Footnote 16: The Swiss always stand up in rowing, and _push_ the oar.
Thus they look the way they are going.]

CHAPTER XIII.

CONCLUSION.

It is not possible to describe in such a volume as this more than a
small part of the excursions which Mr. George and Rollo made or the
adventures which they met with in the course of their tour in
Switzerland. They remained in the country of the Alps more than a
fortnight; and they enjoyed, as Rollo said, every moment of the time.
There was no end to the cascades and waterfalls, the ice and snow-clad
summits, the glaciers, the romantic zigzag paths up the mountain sides,
the picturesque hamlets and cottages, and the groups of peasants toiling
in the fields or tending flocks and herds in the higher pasturages.
Rollo's heart was filled all the time that he remained among these
scenes with never-ceasing wonder and delight. The inns pleased him, too,
as much perhaps as any thing else; for the climbing of mountains and the
long excursions on foot gave him a most excellent appetite; and at the
inns they always found such nice breakfasts, dinners, and suppers every
day that Rollo was never tired of praising them.

Rollo found the cost, too, of travelling in Switzerland much less than
he had expected. He did not expend nearly all the allowance which his
father had granted him. When he came to settle up