ship diary had to have several
extra leaves pasted inside the cover. From morning until night there was a
constant round of sightseeing. The shops and streets of London first, the
Abbey and the Tower, a hundred places that they had read about and longed
to see, and after they had seen, longed to come back to for another visit.

"We can only take a bird's-eye view now and hurry on, but we must
certainly come back some other summer," said Mr. Sherman, when Lloyd
wanted to linger in the Tower of London among the armour and weapons that
had been worn by the old knights, centuries ago. He repeated it when Betty
looked back longingly at the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, where
the great organ was echoing down the solemn aisles, and again when Eugenia
begged for another coach ride out to Hampton Court.

"'Gay go up and gay go down
To ring the bells of London town,"

sang the Little Colonel. "I am having such a good time that I'd like to
stay on right heah all the rest of the summah."

But she thought that about nearly every other place they visited, Windsor,
and Warwick Castle, and Shakespeare's birthplace,--the quaint little
village on the Avon; Ambleside, where they took the coach for long rides
among the lakes made famous by the poets who lived among them and made
them immortal with their songs.

From these English lakes to Scottish moors, from the land of hawthorne to
the land of heather, from low green meadows where the larks sang, to the
highlands where plaided shepherds watched their flocks, they went with
enthusiasm that never waned. They found the "banks and braes o' Bonnie
Doon," and wandered along the banks of more than one little river that
they had loved for years in song and story.

"Haven't we learned a lot!" exclaimed Eugenia, as they journeyed back by
rail to Liverpool, where the Shermans and Betty were to take the steamer.
"I'm sure that I've learned ten times as much as I would in school, this
last year."

"And had such a lovely time in the bargain," added Lloyd. "It's goin' to
make a difference in the way I study this wintah, and in what I read. If
we evah come ovah heah again, I intend to know something about English
history. Then the places we visit will be so much moah interestin'. I'll
not spend so much time on fairy tales and magazine stories. I'm goin' to
make my reading count for something aftah this. It was dreadfully
mawtifyin' to find out that I was so ignorant, and how much