She comes suddenly on a strange structure—apparently a native fort, and is just going to sketch it, when a savage of gigantic stature, and armed to the teeth, starts from an ambush, and menaces her in Gaelic!


TWENTY HOURS AFTER

Euston, 8 P.M.

I'm sick of this sweltering weather.

Phew! ninety degrees in the shade!

I long for the hills and the heather,

I long for the kilt and the plaid;

I long to escape from this hot land

Where there isn't a mouthful of air,