COLON SENIOR. 49 



nis face also reflect his thoughts, they would rea«l 

 about as follows : " Muggs, you are a Briton, and this 

 hotel must be made aware of the fact. Whatever 

 you do, be guilty of no un-English act while in this 

 outlandish land. Your skin is now full of knowl- 

 edge, and let not other travelers, like so many mos- 

 quitoes, suck it from you. Your forefathers blessed 

 their eyes and dropped their h's, and so must you." 

 And perhaps by this time, if the chops have arrived, 

 he dines in seclusion and, by so doing, loses a fund of 

 information which his fellow-travelers have obtained 

 by common exchange. 



Again on the way, Muggs nestles in a corner ot 

 the coach and acts strictly on the defensive, indig- 

 nantly withdrawing his square-toed, thick-soled Eng- 

 lish shoes, should neighboring feet attempt to hob- 

 nob with them. On a trip through Buffalo Land, 

 however, it is difficult for one of her Britannic Maj- 

 esty's subjects to maintain the national dignity. But 

 this fact Genuine Muggs — our Muggs — evidently did 

 not know. Had he known it, he would never have 

 gone with us in the world. 49 



Another of our party rejoiced in the appellation of 

 "Colon.'' He obtained this title because his eccen- 

 tric specialities of character several times came very 

 near putting if not a full stop, at least the next thing 

 to it, upon the particular page of history which our 

 party was making. Longitudinally, Mr. Colon was 

 all of five feet eleven ; in circumference, perhaps a 

 score or so of inches. He possessed a fair share of 

 oddities, and what is better an equally fair one of dol- 

 lars. The hemispheres of his philanthropic brain 



