Rollo in Rome

ing

g is to find somebody that can speak F

ed Charles, "as long as we do

ew the name of the hotel. At any rate, we will walk along until

harles kept silence, so as not to

gh, is the Corso. I have heard of that street before. If we could only find our way to the Corso, I b

said Charles,

said Rollo, "and direct the coachm

"And I should like that, for

first one that we see. You shall get inside, and I will mount

l both get inside, for we c

an," sai

hborhood of the most interesting ruins. It was not long before Rollo and Charles came in sight of

spot, and Rollo, taking out his watch, and s

r h

coachman that he took t

e coachman; and then R

irection; and also, by standing up and pointing forward, the boys could easily indicate to the coachman which w

id the coachman;

eemed very strange. Every thing in Rome was strange to them, and their course now lay through a part of the city which they had not been in before. Their attention was conti

rely indifferent to it all. The scenes that were

AMONG T

llen down, and now lay neglected upon the ground. In other places, the remains of ancient temples stood built in with the houses of the street, with market women at their stalls below, forming a strange and incongruous spectacle of ancient magnificence and splendor, surrounded and overwhelmed with modern poverty and degradat

so. The coachman then looked round, as if t

e, and pointed forward. The coachman, of course, did not understand

when you see the street that you think is th

g up all the time in the middle of the carriage

y could not identify any of the branch streets

rhaps we shall come upon the hotel. We will take the streets that look most l

"Si, signore," and immediately went in that direction. As he advanced in the new street, the boys l

g. The coachman did as he was directed, wondering a little, however, at the strange demeanor of the boys; and feeling somewhat curious to know where they wanted to go. He,

ious in respect to the situation they were in, and so he

nd we will drive through the whole length of it, and you shall look down all the streets that open into it

nd of the street, where there was a sort of opening, and a river. There was a bridge

lo, "here is t

t that is the name o

ilt upon," replied Rollo,-"the Yellow Tiber, as

here. The coachman did as he was directed, and then Rollo and Charles, still standing up in the carriage, had a fine view of the brid

"that Romulus and Remus were flo

e ark?" ask

but he did not like to kill them himself with his own hand, and therefore he put them into a sort of basket, made of bulrus

bridge?" a

of course there was no bridge here then. There wa

e of the babies

r; and there the basket went ashore, and was upset, and the children crawled out on the sand, and began to

at them up?"

t the children were little wolves, and she came to them, and lay down by them, nursed them

les, "what a story!

t in the history of Rome. These two children, when they grew up, laid the foundations of Rome. I don't really believe that the

nt of turbid water which was shooting swiftly under the

o use to go over the bridge. I am sure that we did not come over the r

coachman for this purpose, he turned into another street, and as the carriage drove along, he

o's attention was attracted by a sign

ROMAN SCARFS.

hat I wanted to find." And he immediately mad

it?" aske

to get one for my cousin Lucy. She told me to be sure, if I came to

scended from the carriage

lo, as he went into the shop, "and

g large enough to form a good wide mantle, and others not much wider than a wide ribbon. The central part of the scarf is usually of some unif

found great difficulty, however, in making the shopman understand what he wanted. To all that Rollo said, the shopman smiled, and said only, "Yes,

ying, "Color like that," and then to a small one of a different kin

an; "yes, sir; I understan

the entrance to a room in the rear, where the boys had heard before the sound of a continual t

at will be a good plan, Charley," he added. "Lucy will like i

have it done

opman, bowing and smili

ated Rollo.

hopman. "The time. All tim

repeated Ro

e had said yesterday by mistake for to-morrow. "

rrow shall I com

g again, and smiling in a very comp

speaking very distinctly, and emphasizing

all have him every time to-morrow, because you s

o, "then I will come t

e the shopman good by, a

call speaking Engli

they speak a great deal worse than t

me of the shop where he had engaged the sash, and of the street and number. The coachman sat quietly upon hi

lish," said Rollo, "I could tell him what we want, and he coul

one at some hote

st hotel we come to. I'll let him drive on till he comes to one. No; I'll tell h

aying, "Si, signore," drove on. In a short time he drew up before the door of the hot

here who speaks English

e side of the door when the carriage stopped,

shall know it when I see it; and so I want you to get on the box with the coachman, a

I will go. Do you remember any thing

ore it," said Rollo, "and a founta

Hotel d'Angleterre,"

, we went down one or two step

re." Then seating himself on the box by the side of the co

for Hotel d'Angleterre, or, as we should exp

n, and in a few minu

s he came in sight of it. "Y

uld have been dispelled by the sight of Mr. George, who

e in a carriage,

notice of the name of our hotel when we went o

ugh to take a commissioner. Whenever you get into any difficulty whatever

the commissioner, and then he a