CAMBRIDGE. 1 1 



" Well, young man, I have ordered 

 dinner for you at my lodgings, boiled 

 fowl and bacon." 



"Very kind of you," I replied. Being a 

 perfect stranger in the place, I resolved to 

 accept his invitation ; therefore, after an- 

 swering a few interrogatives made in 

 the kindest manner by my friend of yester- 

 day, and finding that the coach had 

 started for its ultimate destination with a 

 paucity of passengers, I accompanied him. 



Never having been at Cambridge, my 

 thoughts reverted to the Sister University, 

 and I already began in my mind to draw 

 comparisons between them ; but I looked 

 around in vain for the beautiful High 

 Street of the latter. And my companion 

 would not allow me long to indulge in any 

 such ruminations, but took me at once, 

 after passing two or three narrow, dirty 

 streets, to a house of a very mean appear- 

 ance at no great distance. I did certainly 

 venture to ask the name of the hotel, where 



