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by indulging one's appetite in beetroot or some such 

 luxury, to bring it up to fifteenpence or so. The 

 very plain food was served up hot, and everything 

 was clean, so no one grumbled at the absence of a 

 tablecloth. After supper and a cigar and some beer 

 with the club, the Englishmen used to retire to their 

 own quarters. There the Admiral generally pro- 

 duced his tackle and overhauled and tested it, and 

 tied various hooks which would hold the 90-pounder 

 himself if he got into them. He discoursed, too, 

 eloquently of his travels. He had been all over 

 the world, had met many distinguished people and 

 seen many strange sights ; and he had had the yellow 

 fever, the small-pox, and the cholera, and yet lived 

 to catch Jiwhen in Bavaria. So G. listened to tales 

 of fishing for infernal machines in the Baltic, and 

 for salmon in Newfoundland, and queer doings in 

 the tropics, and the nights never seemed long. 



After the hot day came a very wet one, and the 

 beautiful blue of the water disappeared. Xo one 

 seems to account very satisfactorily for this colour. 

 It is to be seen in little pools, and crevasses, and 

 moulins on glaciers, and high up in the Alps where 

 every footstep leaves a delicately tinted hollow in the 

 white snow, and in rivers where the glacier-mud has 

 settled, and in rivers also which rise at a compara- 

 tively low elevation. It cannot be the sky which 

 causes it, for clouds and rain do not drive it away. 

 It is sometimes seen on high mountains in Scot- 



