eorge that we should hire two of them and go down and fish a
little while."

"And what did he say?" asked Jennie.

"He laughed, and said that for him to spend his time while he was in
Paris in fishing in the Seine would be perfectly preposterous. He said
that his time in Europe cost him not less than a dollar for every hour."

"A dollar for every hour?" exclaimed Jennie.

"Yes," replied Rollo. "He says that his two passages across the Atlantic
will have cost three hundred dollars, and the other expenses of his tour
as much as five hundred more, which makes eight hundred dollars, and
that he will not have more than one hundred days, probably, from the
time of his landing in England to the time of his sailing again. That
makes it about eight dollars a day. Now, there are not more than eight
hours in a day suitable for going about and seeing what is to be seen;
so that his time in the middle of the day costs him a dollar an hour;
and he could not afford, he said, to spend it in fishing.

"However," continued Rollo, "he said that I might look at the man's
fishing apparatus; and if I found that it was different from that which
the boys used in America, I might buy some of it to carry home."

"And did you?" asked Jennie.

"Yes," replied Rollo. And so saying, he put his hand in his pocket and
took out a small parcel put up in a piece of French newspaper. He
unrolled this parcel and showed Jennie what it contained. Jennie sat up
in bed very eagerly in order to see it. First there came out a small
net.

"This net, you see," said Rollo, "is to be put upon a hoop or a ring of
wire when I get to America. I did not buy a hoop, because it would fill
up my trunk too much. But I can make one when I get home.

"Then here are the fishing lines," continued Rollo. "I bought two of
them. They were very cheap."

The fishing lines were very pretty. Each had a small round cork upon the
end of a quill. The corks were red, touched with blue. There was a
sinker for each, made of large shot.

"The man put in several spare sinkers for me," resumed Rollo, "in case
these should come off." So saying, he opened a small paper and showed
Jennie several large-sized shot, each of which had a cleft in the side
of it for putting in the line. The intention was that the lead should be
closed over the line, after the line had been inserted in it, by means
of a light blow with a hammer, and thus the sinker would be secured to
its place.

"I like a