Chapter 16 RUS IN URBE

"It is my delight to be

Both in town and in countree."-Old Couplet.

"If one must have a villa in summer to dwell,

Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall."-Charles Morris.

Oh, London! beautiful London! who would not be with thee in May? Paris should not, surely, be recommended as the only Mecca of that lovely month. When the Londo