VI.

"Together we stared at him with rigid and severe
countenances." 240

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

ABOARD THE STEAMER.

We two alone.--"Good by."--"Are you the captain of this
ship?"--Wretchedness.--The jolly Englishman and the
Yankee.--A sail!--The Cattle-man.--The Jersey-man
whose bark was on the sea.--Church services under
difficulties.--The sweet young English face.--Down
into the depths to worship.--"Beware! I stand by
the parson."--Singing to the fishes.--Green Erin.--One
long cheer.--Farewell, Ireland. 13

CHAPTER II.

FIRST DAYS IN ENGLAND.

Up the harbor of Liverpool.--We all emerge as
butterflies.--The Mersey tender.--Lot's
wife.--"Any tobacco?"--"Names, please."--St.
George's Hall.--The fashionable promenade.--The
coffee-room.--The military man who showed the
purple tide of war in his face.--The railway
carriage.--The young man with hair all
aflame.--English villages.--London.--No place
for us.--The H. house.--The Babes in the
Wood.--The party from the country.--We are taken
in charge by the Good Man.--The Golden
Cross.--Solitary confinement.--Mrs. B.'s at last. 27

CHAPTER III.

EXCURSIONS FROM LONDON.

Strange ways.--"The bears that went over to
Charlestown."--The delights of a runaway without
its dangers.--Flower show at the Crystal
Palace.--Whit-Monday at Hampton Court.--A queen
baby.--"But the carpets?"--Poor Nell Gwynne.--Vandyck
faces.--Royal beds.--Lunch at the King's Arms.--O
Music, how many murders have been committed in thy
name!--Queen Victoria's home at Windsor.--A new
"house that Jack built."--The Round Tower.--Stoke
Pogis.--Frogmore.--The Knights of the Garter.--The
queen's gallery.--The queen's plate.--The royal
mews.--The wicker baby-wagons.--The state equipages. 43

CHAPTER IV.

SIGHT-SEEING IN LONDON.

The Tower.--The tall Yankee of inquiring mind.--Our
guide in gorgeous array.