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Shylock exclaimed ‘‘ What news upon the Rialto?” The 
Shylocks were still there, but trading was chiefly in ‘‘ ol’ clo’s.”’ 
Picturesque shipping and views of the side canals and the 
Ghetto were shown—places where the smells hung round and 
were not in a hurry to go. 
A trip on the Lagoon should not be missed, for there 
one seemed to sail between heaven and earth. Torcello, the 
mother city of Venice, was now nearly deserted, but there was 
some exquisite architecture and early Christian sculpture. 
He found many human subjects for his camera, but had for a 
time some difficulty in getting them to smile, till he found out 
the secret, which worked well on the autocrat at Torcello,— 
it was tosay ‘“‘mia cara.” His last excursion was to Chioggia— 
40 miles for one shilling and two pence, first class. For the 
first time since coming to Venice he saw a white horse—all 
the horses he had hitherto seen were bronze ones on the front 
of St. Mark’s. If one were fortunate, as he was, they might 
see a glorious sunset, in which the sky was one blaze of glor- 
ious colour. The best way to see the lake was to take a 
steamer, first-class, as the awning was provided only at that end, 
but the other end was well worth visiting to see the natives, and 
the priests, who always travel with their people and had a word 
for every one of them. The women werenot afraid of work and 
were often seen carrying panniers twice as large as those carried 
by the mules, while their men were probably at the wine 
shop, or at home A number of villages were visited, and at 
each was a slender campanile, and at all of them, with one 
exception, Cadenabbia, begging was one of the fine arts, and 
boys were continually asking for ‘“centesimi.” Some 
magnificent views of mountain and lake scenery were shown at 
points on Lake Como, where on the boat he came across four 
cockneys, all drunk, inquiring for the captain that they might 
slay him. They could imagine how proud he was of his own 
countrymen. At Bellano, he saw a splendid religious festival— 
of the Christi, and was on that account unable to get into 
the church that day. The lecturer concluded a most in- 
teresting and racy record of a delightful holiday tour by a 
quotation from Pliny. 
Dok 
