riage for seeing the
prospect on _one_ side of the road."

"Yes," said Mr. George; "but there might be the most astonishing
spectacle in Switzerland on the other side without our knowing any thing
about it unless we turned round expressly to see."

So saying, Mr. George turned in his seat and looked at that side of the
road which had been behind them. There was a field there, and a young
girl about seventeen years old--with a very broad-brimmed straw hat upon
her head, and wearing a very picturesque costume in other respects--was
seen digging up the ground with a hoe.

The blade of the hoe was long, and it seemed very heavy. The girl was
digging up the ground by standing upon the part which she had already
dug and striking the hoe down into the hard ground a few inches back
from where she had struck before.

"Do the women work in the fields every where in Switzerland, Henry?"
said Mr. George.

The guide's name was Henry. He could not speak English, but he spoke
French and German. Mr. George addressed him in French.

"Yes, sir," said Henry; "in every part of Switzerland where I have
been."

"In America the women never work in the fields," said Mr. George.

"Never?" asked Henry, surprised.

"No," said Mr. George; "at least, I never saw any."

"What do they do, then," asked Henry, "to spend their time?"

Mr. George laughed. He told Rollo, in English, that he did not think he
had any satisfactory answer at hand in respect to the manner in which
the American ladies spent their time.

"I pity that poor girl," said Rollo, "hoeing all day on such hard
ground. I think the men ought to do such work as that."

"The men have harder work to do," said Mr. George; "climbing the
mountains to hunt chamois, or driving the sheep and cows up to the upper
pasturages in places where it would be very difficult for women to go."

"We must turn round every now and then," said Rollo, "and see what is
behind us, or we may lose the sight of something very extraordinary."

"Yes," said Mr. George; "I heard of a party of English ladies who once
went out in a char a banc to see a lake. It happened that when they came
to the lake the road led along the shore in such a manner that the
party, as they sat in the carriage, had their backs to the water. So
they rode along, looking at the scenery on the land side and wondering
why they did not come to the lake. In this manner they continued until
they had gone entirely around the lake; and