74 BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK, 



in a sack and carried him past the dreaded spot, 

 and of how insuperably beset with clouds the top- 

 most peak had been, our hearts fell into our boots, 

 and the tune of " The Man that broke the Bank at 

 Monte Carlo" has, ever since that night, held a 

 horror for us that is not entirely its own. 



