328 AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWARD. 



Court. It is worth it. When you go for that purpose, 

 take time. 



Then we must go out to Windsor Castle for a day - 

 a whole day. 



If we could only have the good fortune to go 

 through the Queen's rooms, as wife and I did five 

 years ago. That privilege comes to very few. We 

 were most fortunate in this. We saw in the Castle 

 the Queen's gold plate, 2,000,000 worth in one loom. 

 We held in our hands breakfast plates worth 81,000 

 each. 



We were in the silver room, and saw silver worth 

 400,000, or 82,000,000. There are eight rooms 

 through which the public may be shown at almost 

 any time, and these rooms will occupy all our time 

 during the day. We must visit the Royal stables and 

 see " AIL the Queens horses, and all the Quten's men " 

 that attend them. 



Having returned to the great city after this little 

 outing, we must go to work like those who mean busi- 

 ness. British Museum, one or two days a week would 

 be far better. The Tower, at least a day. Westmin- 

 ster Abbey, a day, and more if possible. South Ken- 

 sington Museum, a week three weeks if you can spare 

 the time. General Pitts River's collection of aborig- 

 inal curiosities ought to engage us for several hours ; 



