44 A VIKGINIAN. 



" Exceedingly visible, I assure you. Pray come 

 along, if you have no better way of killing the time 

 before dinner." 



" No better way in the world." 



" Let us go then. It is not a hundred yards, and 

 I have got some things I am not ashamed to show 

 you, particularly a pair of very fast New York 

 trotters." 



"Very fast?" 



"Yes. Three minutes together." 



'^ Andiamo.'' 



And therewith they went. 



