hts matches any other way, and doubtless it is easier done so than
on any other object, as I learnt by experience. But the posture is
most inelegant and grotesque, and had any one prophesied, when I
first saw the feat, that I should ever do it, I should have laughed
scornfully. But habits, you see continually, take a strange hold of
you; my sons never lighted matches any other way, and I, trying it
once or twice, found it so convenient, I am almost ashamed to say I
was fast acquiring the practice when I left the ranch. Of course,
since my return to civilization, I have not been so naughty! I once,
in Colorado, saw a girl, and a very nice one, a lady's daughter of
ten years old, essay the feat, quite unconscious of doing anything
strange. Odd to relate, she succeeded, for petticoats are naturally
inferior to trousers as match illuminating surfaces. But the
performance convulsed me with laughter, while I pointed out to her
mother and her that in her case it was highly dangerous withal.

The _Monarch_ steamer left next morning early, so I slept on board.
She was a tiny boat as compared with the _City of Rome_, in which I
had come out, but a good one all the same. Except a twenty-four
hours' gale of wind, during which she behaved well, we had a smooth
passage. The passengers were not many. We were bound to London, so
came up the Channel and river, arriving in thirteen days. After the
bright skies I had revelled in, the foggy November weather we
encountered, after passing the Scilly Islands, was very gloomy in
comparison, and the dingy old Thames, when I recalled the Hudson
river, showed out painfully. Still England is _dear_ England to the
"Britisher," and as I landed at Blackwall I felt that, with all her
faults, I loved her still.

FINIS.

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