rised when I say that I had excellent
rest. I got up, and after dressing myself went down. The morning was
exceedingly brilliant. Going out I saw the Italian lacing up his
high-lows against a step. I saluted him, and asked him if he was about
to depart.

"Yes, signore; I shall presently start for Denbigh."

"After breakfast I shall start for Bangor," said I.

"Do you propose to reach Bangor to-night, signore?"

"Yes," said I.

"Walking, signore?"

"Yes," said I; "I always walk in Wales."

"Then you will have rather a long walk, signore; for Bangor is
thirty-four miles from here."

I asked him if he was married.

"No, signore; but my brother in Liverpool is."

"To an Italian?"

"No, signore; to a Welsh girl."

"And I suppose," said I, "you will follow his example by marrying one;
perhaps that good-looking girl the landlady's daughter we were seated
with last night?"

"No, signore; I shall not follow my brother's example. If ever I take a
wife she shall be of my own village, in Como, whither I hope to return,
as soon as I have picked up a few more pounds."

"Whether the Austrians are driven away or not?" said I.

"Whether the Austrians are driven away or not--for to my mind there is no
country like Como, signore."

I ordered breakfast; whilst taking it in the room above I saw through the
open window the Italian trudging forth on his journey, a huge box on his
back, and a weather-glass in his hand--looking the exact image of one of
those men, his country people, whom forty years before I had known at
N---. I thought of the course of time, sighed and felt a tear gather in
my eye.

My breakfast concluded, I paid my bill, and after inquiring the way to
Bangor, and bidding adieu to the kind landlady and her daughter, set out
from Cerrig y Drudion. My course lay west, across a flat country,
bounded in the far distance by the mighty hills I had seen on the
preceding evening. After walking about a mile I overtook a man with a
game leg, that is a leg which, either by nature or accident not being so
long as its brother leg, had a patten attached to it, about five inches
high, to enable it to do duty with the other--he was a fellow with red
shock hair and very red features, and was dressed in ragged coat and
breeches and a hat which had lost part of its crown, and all its rim, so
that even without a game leg he would have looked rather a queer figure.
In his hand he carried a fiddle.

"Good morning t