ARTIFICIAL OYSTER CULTIVATION. 1197 



All the world admits and here at least experience con- 

 firms the verdict of all the world that nothing so greatly 

 tries and tires sympathy as fellowship in a long and indefi- 

 nite journey. Even those heaven-born twins of travel 

 the Pylades and Orestes of tourists to the youth of a 

 former generation Lumley Ferrers and Ernest Mal- 

 travers, found a few years of desultory wandering almost 

 too much for their mutual forbearance. Their parting 

 was a mixture of fire and ice. ' Is this fair to me ?' cries 

 Lumley, for once angry in reality. ' Trouble me no more,' 

 replies the haughty Ernest, as his late companion in not 

 unnatural dudgeon turns to leave the room. Let us hope 

 that no such stormy ending may attend the conversational 

 stroll which we have taken together through some ten or 

 twenty thousands of miles, and over a range of two or 

 .three dozen of centuries." 



