“Why, Johnny!” he exclaimed, in a tone of mortification.
“They all do so,” said John, laughing. “A Frenchman thinks he has a right to everything that he pays for. Watch the others.”
Eric looked around and saw several Frenchmen, who had finished their lunch, following John’s example.
“Well,” said he, “if I should do that at Millard’s, how they would all stare!”
Johnny was quite pleased with his own importance in being able to show Eric around the city, and proposed several places that they “ought to see.” But the afternoon was waning, and a damp, chilly breeze sprang up, which Eric knew, from experience, was not at all good for the mumps. So he very prudently hurried Johnny home, holding forth Froll’s loneliness as an additional inducement.
CHAPTER X.
STRASBOURG.
“Uncle John,” said Eric, the next morning, “do you think of going through Strasbourg, when we leave for Munich?”