Farewell to the Coach, 331 



fine climate it has as compared with the Highlands south 

 of it! Vegetation is luxuriant here and the land fertile. 

 One would naturally expect all to be bleak and bare so 

 far north, but that Gulf Stream which America sends 

 over to save the precious tight little isle from being 

 a region of ice makes it delightful in summer and 

 not extremely cold even in winter. We are assured 

 that the climate of Inverness is more genial than that 

 of Edinburgh, which is not saying very much for the 

 capital of the North surely, but still it is something. 



Caledonian Hotel, 

 Inverness, August 5, evening. 



General Manager, at dinner. 



To waiter : " What time do we start in the morn- 

 ing?" 



Waiter : " The omnibus starts at seven, sir." 



Shakespearean Student — " Ah ! There was the weight 

 which pulled us down. The omnibus ! Farewell the 

 neighing steeds, the spirit-stirring horn, whose sweet 

 throat awakened the echoes o'er mountain and glen. 

 Farewell, the Republican banner, and all the pride, 

 pomp, and circumstance of glorious coaching, farewell/ 

 The Charioteers' occupation's gone." 



First Miltonic Reciter — 



" From morn till noon, 

 From noon till dewy eve, 

 A summer's day we fell." 



