grasping
hold of some green and slimy steps, you cling there, like
Crusoe to his rock; then, after many efforts, having lost your
hat, and scarified your knees, and torn your nails, you at
length stand on the pier. So much for yourself. As to your
baggage, it has been already divided into as many lots as there
are articles; you have a porter for your portmanteau, a porter
for your dressing-case, a porter for your hat-box, a porter for
your umbrella, a porter for your cane. If there are two of you,
that makes ten porters; if three, fifteen; as we were four, we
had twenty. A twenty-first wished to take Milord (the dog,) but
Milord, who permits no liberties, took him by the calf, and we
had to pinch his tail till he consented to unlock his teeth.
The porter followed us, crying that the dog had lamed him, and
that he would compel us to make compensation. The people rose
in tumult; and we arrived at the _Pension Suisse_ with twenty
porters before us, and a rabble of two hundred behind.

"It cost us forty francs for our portmanteaus, umbrellas, and
canes, and ten francs for the bitten leg.[1] In all, fifty
francs for about fifty steps."--P. 59.

[1] This was not the only case of compensation made out against
this travelling companion. "Milord," says our tourist, "in his
quality of bulldog, was so great a destroyer of cats, that we
judged it wise to take some precautions against overcharges in
this particular. Therefore, on our departure from Genoa, in
which town Milord had commenced his practices upon the feline
race of Italy, we enquired the price of a full-grown,
well-conditioned cat, and it was agreed on all hands that a cat
of the ordinary species--grey, white, and tortoiseshell--was
worth two pauls--(learned cats, Angora cats, cats with two
heads or three tails, are not, of course, included in this
tariff.) Paying down this sum for two several Genoese cats
which had been just strangled by our friend, we demanded a
legal receipt, and we added successively other receipts of the
same kind, so that this document became at length an
indisputable authority for the price of cats throughout all
Italy. As often as Milord committed a new assassination, and
the attempt was made to extort from us more than two pauls as
the price of blood, we drew this document from our pocket, and