. St. Nicholas [serial]. Birds were beginning towaken behind high garden walls. The morn-ing air was fragrant with the scent of young flow-ers and shrubs. Sober Oxford was yet fast Copyright, 1904, by The Century Co 579 A gate in a red brick wall was reached,and the girl of courage rang the bell till itclanged loud and long. The forbidding gateled to a hospitable garden, and thence to ahospitable house and lamp-lit were more Americans and a kindly Englishhostess. To be invited out to breakfast at fouroclock ! sighed Alice, contentedly, as she ateher toast and bacon and dra
. St. Nicholas [serial]. Birds were beginning towaken behind high garden walls. The morn-ing air was fragrant with the scent of young flow-ers and shrubs. Sober Oxford was yet fast Copyright, 1904, by The Century Co 579 A gate in a red brick wall was reached,and the girl of courage rang the bell till itclanged loud and long. The forbidding gateled to a hospitable garden, and thence to ahospitable house and lamp-lit were more Americans and a kindly Englishhostess. To be invited out to breakfast at fouroclock ! sighed Alice, contentedly, as she ateher toast and bacon and drank her tea. The daylight had meanwhile been gainingupon them. They came out of the doorwayinto a world of smoked pearl, lighted by massesof white blossoms. A fly stood at the gate. A fly! sighedAlice again. Actually to ride in after allthese years of reading Dickens. The little American party drove merrilythrough the still, gray streets. At the gate of All rights reserved. 58o MAGDALEN TOWER AND MAY MORNING. [May,. MAGDALEN TOWER FROM THE STREET. Magdalen College they divided : the adventur-ous to mount the tower, the poorer-spirited toremain below in the cloisters. Up climbed Bar-bara— up a ladder, then by a stair, last by an-other and steeper ladder, her English com- MAGDALEN BRIDGE AND TOWER FROM THE RIVER. panion panting forth historical facts as theymounted: The tower was begun in 1492, — a great dateof your own, Miss Barbara, — and it was finishedin 1507. Its height is one hundred and forty-five feet. Three — hundred — people — can —stand—on—the — top. And by this the poor ladys breath was quitegone. The less enterprising of the party weresupplied with chairs, and sat comfortably in thecloisters, while far above their heads the companygathered on the top of the beautiful MagdalenTower. The center of the group was the white-robed college choir. On May morning, from time immemorial, theMagdalen choir has sung a hymn at sunrisefrom the summit of the
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