Tommy sat down beside the much interested, benevolent-looking old gentleman, and said,—
“It was not George Wilkes Booth who killed President Lincoln, it was—
“Well, if this don’t cap the whole! Why, you are a ‘figger,’ too.”
And so the mild, attentive-looking old gentleman proved to be.
The Chamber of Horrors revived the feeling the visitors had felt in the Tower. It was a collection of representations of criminals. Among the relics is the blade of the guillotine used during the Reign of Terror in France, which is said to have cut off two thousand heads.
WOLSEY SERVED BY NOBLES.
Hampton Court Palace, the gift of Cardinal Wolsey to Henry VIII., and probably the most magnificent present that a prelate ever gave a king, next received our tourists’ attention. The palace originally consisted of five courts, only a part of which now remain, but which assist the fancy in stereoscoping the old manorial splendor. Here Wolsey lived in vice-regal pomp, and had nearly one thousand [!-- original location of 'Wolsey served by nobles' --] [!-- blank page --] persons to do his house-keeping, and noble lords, on state occasions, waited upon him upon bended knees.
The establishment at this time contained fifteen hundred rooms.