ved for their annual visit.

There were still some delays. Mr. Peterkin was very anxious to obtain
teachers who had been but a short time in this country. He did not want
to be tempted to talk any English with them. He wanted the latest
and freshest languages, and at last came home one day with a list of
"brand-new foreigners."

They decided to borrow the Bromwicks' carryall to use, beside their own,
for the first day, and Mr. Peterkin and Agamemnon drove into town to
bring all the teachers out. One was a Russian gentleman, travelling, who
came with no idea of giving lessons, but perhaps he would consent to do
so. He could not yet speak English.

Mr. Peterkin had his card-case, and the cards of the several gentlemen
who had recommended the different teachers, and he went with Agamemnon
from hotel to hotel collecting them. He found them all very polite,
and ready to come, after the explanation by signs agreed upon. The
dictionaries had been forgotten, but Agamemnon had a directory, which
looked the same, and seemed to satisfy the foreigners.

Mr. Peterkin was obliged to content himself with the Russian instead
of one who could teach Sanscrit, as there was no new teacher of that
language lately arrived.

But there was an unexpected difficulty in getting the Russian gentleman
into the same carriage with the teacher of Arabic, for he was a Turk,
sitting with a fez on his head, on the back seat! They glared at each
other, and began to assail each other in every language they knew, none
of which Mr. Peterkin could understand. It might be Russian, it might be
Arabic. It was easy to understand that they would never consent to sit
in the same carriage. Mr. Peterkin was in despair; he had forgotten
about the Russian war! What a mistake to have invited the Turk!

Quite a crowd collected on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. But the
French gentleman politely, but stiffly, invited the Russian to go with
him in the first carryall. Here was another difficulty. For the German
professor was quietly ensconced on the back seat! As soon as the French
gentleman put his foot on the step and saw him, he addressed him in
such forcible language that the German professor got out of the door the
other side, and came round on the sidewalk, and took him by the collar.
Certainly the German and French gentlemen could not be put together, and
more crowd collected!

Agamemnon, however, had happily studied up the German word "Herr," and
he appl