there was a considerable tumult on the
landing-stage. Then a very angry traveller appropriated one of my ears
and began to tell me that they were for detaining him in this country;
three or four natives of the country reported, simultaneously, into my
other ear that he had been letting off his revolver and was altogether a
dangerous man. I was to settle whether he should sail or not, and
meanwhile his luggage had been put ashore. He waved his passport in my
face. Both he and his opponents were gesticulating with great violence,
and this they continued to do even after I filled their hands with most
of the small and large bouquets which the friendly people had brought
down for me. There was so much noise that the boat's whistle, which the
captain started, was no more than a forest-tree soaring slightly over
those around it. As I tried to disentangle myself from those who
encircled me I caught sight of the old gentleman of the poem--in
appearance he was a smaller edition of the late Dr. Butler of Trinity;
he was clearly nervous lest I should depart without his lines, which he
extended towards me, written on the back of one of his visiting-cards. I
was just then being told by the agitated traveller that he had only been
firing into the air because it was Easter, and that this was his
invariable custom at midnight on Easter-Eve. The explanation was so
satisfactory that everyone welcomed my suggestion that he should sail
and that they should send his revolver on to him by parcel post. They
all shook hands with him. The two nationalities were on excellent terms.
And we may transfer the old gentleman's good wishes to them and the
other Yugoslavs:

Oh! la belle journee de votre bonheur,
Souhaitons votre bon voyage tout-a-l'heure.
Couronne de grands succes du ciel je vous implore,
Allegresse, sante et prosperite je vous augure.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 116: Cf. _Modern Italy_, by Giovanni Borghese. Paris,
1913.]

[Footnote 117: Cf. _Through the Lands of the Serb_.]

[Footnote 118: Cf. _The Children of the Illuminator_, by Bishop
Nicholai Velimirovi['c]. London, 1919.]

[Footnote 119: _Edinburgh Review_, July 1920 (anonymous).]

[Footnote 120: Subsequently printed as a pamphlet with the
title, _Die Ausgestaltung des deutschen Kultur-Einflusses in
Bulgarien_. This was printed by the Opposition parties in
Sofia, who to circumvent the censor gave out that it was