PHENRAGEMARKED VAT BRUGES.

own, and shamed us lazy ones by her strength and activity. But we had one
advantage over her. Between us, we had done a fair amount of wandering.
Norway and Greece, China and the West Indies, Hungary and California, Spain
and Egypt, Ceylon and the Rocky Mountains, Mexico and Italy had all seen one
or the other of us at various times. Hercules alone had never been abroad
before, and could not (or would not)
speak French. So, whatever she
wanted, she had to come for to one

of uc How we used to crow
over her!

M. —“ the Interpreter” —
was the third of the pilgrims.
Hercules gave her the name
one evening at Antwerp,
when they went off together
to the Zodlogical gardens.
All the wild beasts were shut
up for the night ; but M. in-
terpreted G.’s petitions to
the keepers with such suc-
cess that doors were un-
barred by good-natured
attendants, and these two
giddy young people were locked
into the Lion House for twenty x
delightful minutes, which the Masry
spent in peering through the : fee (ee
gloom at sleepy lions and tigers, rous- \ NS AS
ing boa-constrictors from their diges- bs =
tive snooze after a supper of rabbits, eeu OT
and making faces at the leopards till
those ugly beasts snarled at them. The Interpreter was the baby of the party ;
much given to traveling; very enthusiastic about all she saw, heard, did and
thought; always on the lookout to do something for other people, and the
victim who was teased by everybody in town, because she looked so pretty
when she was enraged.

Number four — usually called “ La Capable ” —was a hardened old traveler,
whose chief use was to act as courier to the party, order rooms and encounter
officials. She made copious notes in certain brown notebooks which were a
source of great anxiety to the rest of the quartet, as they were sometimes left
behind in shops, and recaptured with infinite difficulty. She also enjoyed her
self hugely, as her friends had a way of spoiling her outrageously.