Jone Tried To Comfort Me By Telling Me That He Would Be Willing To Bet Ten To One That My Fancy Would Soar A Mile Above The Real Thing, And That Perhaps It Was Very Well I Didn't See Old Fingal's Cave And So Be Disappointed.

"Perhaps it is a good thing," said I, "that you didn't go, and that you didn't get so seasick

That you would be ready to renounce your country's flag and embrace Mormonism if such things would make you feel better." But that is the only thing that is good about it, and I have a cloud on my recollection which shall never be lifted until Corinne is old enough to travel and we come here with her.

But although the storm was so bad, it was not bad enough to keep us from making our water trip to Glasgow, for the boat we took did not have to go out to sea. It was a wonderfully beautiful passage we made among the islands and along the coast, with the great mountains on the mainland standing up above everything else. After a while we got to the Crinan Canal, which is in reality a short cut across the field. It is nine miles long and not much wider than a good-sized ditch, but it saves more than a hundred miles of travel around an island. We was on a sort of a toy steamboat which went its way through the fields and bushes and grass so close we could touch them; and as there was eleven locks where the boat had to stop, we got out two or three times and walked along the banks to the next lock.

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