308 AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWARD. 



Ludgate Hill (Street) brings us back to St. Paul's 

 Churchyard. 



We were here in the morning, so we will not remain 

 now. We pass the great church on the right and go 

 into Cannon Street, then down Eastcheap into Great 

 Tower Street, which brings us to the Tower of London, 

 of which we have read many a time. 



We cannot enter the Tower now, it is too late, and 

 we are very tired, for we have done the hardest day's 

 work we ever did in our lives. We have seen in our 

 round a half million of people and more than ten 

 thousand vehicles. What a conglomeration of carts, 

 carriages, coaches, omnibuses, donkeys, dogs, goats, 

 mules; fishmongers, pedlars, street hawkers, errand 

 boys, sight-seers like ourselves ; silks, rags, ladies, 

 beggars, honest toilers for bread, and thieves. Before 

 we go to our lodgings we will run our eye over our 

 path for the day. Are you good at sketching < 



Very well, then. Draw on this piece of paper the 

 fore leg of a horse in the act of making a step forward. 

 We began in the morning at the toe, up Leadenhall 

 and Cornhill we went the length of his foot. Up 

 Cheapside, Newgate, Holborn Viaduct, we ascended 

 to reach his knee at Holborn Circus. Up Holborn, 

 High Holborn, New Oxford Street, Old Oxford, 

 reaching his body at Hyde Park, having come nearly 



