he table. There are
about a dozen other fellows who have to camp out too, so it's a rare
spree.

We're going to have a shot at the Matterhorn to-morrow if it's fine. It
looks easy enough, and Jim and I were making out the path with a
telescope this afternoon. It's rather a crow to do the Matterhorn.
Some muffs take guides up, but they cost four or five pounds, so we're
going without.

That boat fellow at Montreux got to be a regular nuisance. In fact,
that's why we came on here a day earlier. He came up twice a day to the
inn, and we couldn't shake him off. We gave him a sov., which was twice
what he had a right to. He swore he'd have two pounds or bring up a
policeman with him next time. So we thought the best way was to clear
out by the early train next morning, and I guess he was jolly blue when
he found us gone. I send with this a faint sketch of some of the
natives! What do you say to their rig?

It was a pretty good grind up to Zermatt, and we walked it up the
valley. There wasn't much to see on the way, and it's a frightfully
stony road. There were some fellows playing lawn-tennis at the hotel at
Zermatt. One of them wasn't half bad. His serves twisted to the leg
and were awfully hard to get up. Jim and I wouldn't have minded a game,
only the fellows seemed to think no one wanted to play but themselves.
We may get a game to-morrow on our way to the Matterhorn. It was a
tremendous fag getting up here from Zermatt. I don't know why fellows
all come on, as there's no tennis court or anything up here.

There's an ice-field up here called a glacier, but it's an awful fraud
if you want skating--rough as one of Bullford's fields at Rugby. A
fellow told me it bears all the year round, but it's got a lot of holes,
so we don't think we'll try it. I expect we shall be home next week, as
the pater thinks we've run through our money rather too fast. Remember
me to your people and your young sister.

Yours truly, T. Hooker.

Zermatt, _August_ 20.

Dear Gus,--We didn't do the Matterhorn after all, as Jim screwed his
foot. He's awfully unlucky, and if it hadn't been for the accident we
might have got to the top; and of course it stops tennis too. We did
get one game before we started up. Jim gave me fifteen in two games
each set. I pulled off the first, but he whacked me the other two.
It's a beastly rough court, though, and the mountain was awfully in the
light.

We hadn't much difficulty fin