shall never see it more.'

'Nay, take comfort in the general lot. It will turn up to-morrow; and
meantime sleep is not packed up in our boxes. Come, let's be off. What
noises! How do these drivers keep from running over one another. Each
seems ready to whip every one's beast but his own. Don't you feel
yourself in Ireland, Rashe? Arrah! I shall begin to scream too if I
stand here much longer.'

'We can't go in that thing--a fly!'

'Don't exist here, Rashe--vermin is unknown. Submit to your fate--' and
ere another objection could be uttered, Cilly threw bags and rods into an
inside car, and pushed her cousin after them, chattering all the time, to
poor Horatia's distraction. 'Oh! delicious! A cross between a baker's
cart and a Van Amburgh. A little more and it would overbalance and carry
the horse head over heels! Take care, Rashe; you'll pound me into dust
if you slip down over me.'

'I can't help it! Oh! the vilest thing in creation.'

'Such fun! To be taken when well shaken. Here we go up, up, up; and
here we go down, down, down! Ha! ware fishing-rod! This is what it is
to travel. No one ever described the experiences of an inside car!'

'Because no one in their senses would undergo such misery!'

'But you don't regard the beauties, Rashe, beauties of nature and art
combined--see the lights reflected in the river--what a width. Oh! why
don't they treat the Thames as they do the Liffey?'

'I can't see, I shall soon be dead! and getting to an inn without
luggage, it's not respectable.'

'If you depart this life on the way, the want of luggage will concern me
the most, my dear. Depend on it, other people have driven up in inside
cars, minus luggage, in the memory of man, in this City of Dublin. Are
you such a worldling base as to depend for your respectability on a
paltry leathern trunk?'

Lucilla's confidence did not appear misplaced, for neither waiters nor
chambermaids seemed surprised, but assured them that people usually
missed their luggage by that train, and asseverated that it would appear
next morning.

Lucilla awoke determined to be full of frolic and enjoyment, and Horatia,
refreshed by her night's rest, was more easily able to detect 'such fun'
than on the previous night; so the two cousins sat down amicably to
breakfast on the Sunday morning, and inquired about church-services.

'My mallard's tail hat is odd "go to meeting" head-gear,' said Cilla,
'but one cannot lapse int