126 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINN A? US 



at a tangent upon some picturesque bit : every other step 

 leads to a picture. It is a most amusing and bewil- 

 dering place to walk in ; one is always being attracted 

 away from one's destination. The people and children 

 behave very nicely, and do not crowd about one as one 

 draws. The windows in Wisby are so filled with fine 

 plants that it makes one continuous flower-show. Some 

 few lower windows, lighting cellars apparently, are cross- 

 barred with iron, fastened together by loose rings. 

 There is a delightful walk by the shore, leading into a 

 kind of private botanical garden, combining also flower 

 and kitchen garden, commanding from its shrubberies 

 and avenues fine views of the varied and picturesque 

 towers and churches. The proprietor seems to leave it 

 perfectly free for the town to enjoy. It leads to a 

 public pleasure-ground containing a pavilion with a sort 

 of caf6 chantant or theatre. The town, from its situa- 

 tion on a hill-side by the sea, drains itself by stone- 

 shoot gutters, in which career large, tame, brown rats. 

 It is paved with large pebbles, with a single-file pathway 

 of smooth pavement on one side of the street. One can 

 study the character of lovers as they walk side by side 

 on the single-stone pavement; sometimes he, some- 

 times she, gets the pebbles. Linnaeus would of course 

 have left the slabs to Elizabeth ; she would have taken 

 them in any case. The streets are overarched in several 

 places, reminding one of Jerusalem. Oxen drawing 

 wains keep up a rattling noise on the rough pavement. 

 We walk outside the walls beyond the chain of towers 



