enes been
continually coming into view, and the train have gone so
slowly that we were enabled to enjoy them almost as well
as though we had been riding on an English stage-coach.
I was so interested in the new objects that presented
themselves that I entirely forgot the manner of
conveyance.

I shall never forget that ride: it was like viewing a
long panorama.

It cost me only about L1 or $5.00, to travel from
Scotland to London.

We took a lodging room in London which cost us a
shilling a night apiece. While in London I visited the
Tower, Westminster Abbey, Windsor, and the principal
Parks. The half day spent in Westminster Abbey was worth
all the discomforts of the journey across the sea.

We also made a journey to Sydenham Crystal Palace,--an
immense museum of novelties, to which the admission is
only one shilling. It is probably the first palace ever
built for the people, and I like the idea of a people's
palace better than a king's. It occupies with its
grounds about three hundred acres, and cost nearly
L2,000,000. Twenty-five acres of glass were used in its
construction. The museum is full of the products of
industry of all countries and times. Think of it--all
for one shilling! It is a thing to make one always
respect the English people.

I need say very little of the tombs of the twenty or
thirty kings and queens in Westminster Abbey. I was
first impressed with the value of fame when I read
inscriptions to persons once famous of whom I never
heard,--Thomas Shadwell, Poet Laureate in the Court of
William III.; Mrs. Oldfield, whom we are told was buried
"in a fine Brussels lace head-dress,"--and I thought,
Well, all men can do is to perform their duty, and time
will one day make forgotten Thomas Shadwells and Mrs.
Oldfields of them all.

While in London I made also a pleasant excursion into
Berkshire, and there I saw the famous White Horse Hill.
It is said that the figure of the White Horse on the
hill was first made by Alfred the Great a thousand years
ago, to commemorate the defeat of the Danes,--the White
Horse being the standard or national emblem of the
Danish chief. Whatever may have been its origin, it is
_now_ made by annually cutting about an acre of turf
away from the chalk beneath it. This work is performed