e east."

"What is there to be seen at Baiae?" asked Mrs. Gray.

"Nothing but old ruins," said Rollo, contemptuously. "I don't see why
people should want to go so far, and take away our guide, just to see
old ruins. Besides, there are plenty of old ruins at Pompeii.

"But, Mrs. Gray," continued Rollo, "I don't think we need any guide at
all to go to Pompeii. We can go by ourselves."

"Do you think so?" said Mrs. Gray.

"Why, you see I can engage a carriage to take us there myself," said
Rollo. "I shall say 'Pompeii!' to the coachman, and point that way. And
when we get to Pompeii, we shall find uncle George there, and then we
shall get along well enough."

"True," said Mrs. Gray. "But then," she added, after thinking a moment,
"perhaps we might miss Mr. George, after all. I don't know how large a
place it is. If it is a large place, we might miss him in some of the
streets."

Here Rosie opened a guide book which lay upon the table, and turned to a
map of Pompeii which she recollected to have seen there. Her hope was to
find that there were not many streets, and thus to show that there would
not be much danger of missing Mr. George. She found, however, that the
plan of the town looked quite complicated. There was a long street,
called the Street of the Tombs, leading into it; and then within the
walls there were a great many other streets, crossing each other, and
running in all directions. So she shut the book, and did not say a word,
thinking that the sight of the plan would impede, rather than promote,
the acceptance of Rollo's proposal.

"I don't think there are a great many streets," said Rollo. "There were
none at all at Herculaneum."

"Ah, but Herculaneum is a very different thing," said Mrs. Gray.
"Herculaneum was buried up very deep with solid lava, and only a very
small portion of it has been explored, and that you go down into as you
would into a cellar or a mine. Pompeii was but just covered, and that
only with sand and ashes; and the sand and ashes have all been dug out
and carted off from a large part of the city, so as to bring the whole
out in the open day."

"Then it will be a great deal pleasanter place to visit," said Rosie.

"Yes," said Mrs. Gray; "and I don't think that there will be much danger
in our going by ourselves. If we don't find Mr. George, we can walk
about a while, and then come back in the carriage again."

"We might go by the railroad if we chose," said Rollo. "There is a