. Six and one abroad. f our party of preac h-ers lagged behind the rest and, supposing no one was look-ing, hammered upon a broken monolith and put the resultof his depredations into his pocket. But no sooner had hedone so than a guard appeared from in hiding and arrestedhim for his vandalism. He was promptly arraigned in themagistrates court, where with much trepidation and diffi-culty of making himself understood he pleaded his innocenceof intended violation of law and urged that he should be dis-charged because there were no prohibitory signs posted tow^arn against such acts. He was dischar
. Six and one abroad. f our party of preac h-ers lagged behind the rest and, supposing no one was look-ing, hammered upon a broken monolith and put the resultof his depredations into his pocket. But no sooner had hedone so than a guard appeared from in hiding and arrestedhim for his vandalism. He was promptly arraigned in themagistrates court, where with much trepidation and diffi-culty of making himself understood he pleaded his innocenceof intended violation of law and urged that he should be dis-charged because there were no prohibitory signs posted tow^arn against such acts. He was discharged, but as he turnedto go an officer gave him a kick from behind. When heprotested gainst the treatment, the officer reasoned that hehad a right to administer a kick because there was no signupon his back prohibiting it. The incident was worthy ofthe day of Diogenes and was a wholesome lesson to thesouvenir fiend. It is hardly necessary to add that the of-fender in this case was our Connoisseur. 52 Six and One Abroad. Athens—Its Bnins 53 From the Acropolis the eye is ravished on every hand byviews as splendid as the world affords. The white dome of]\It. Hymettiis, famed for its honey and its muses, rises sublimeand majestic on the east; little farther to the northeast isPentelicon with its quarries of marble from which two citieshave been built, and beyond it is Marathon, where one of theworlds decisive battles was fought; Lycabettus rises abruptlyout of the heart of the modern city higher than the Acropolis,and a white convent glistens on its summit like a crown; thecity of Corinth is barely visible in the blue beyond the hills;to the west the Plains of Attica, green with growing crops,sweep gracefully to the sea; to the southeast the harbor of Pi-raeus, which held the navies of ancient Greece, is filled nowwith the fleets of commerce; Salamis Bay, esteemed for thedefeat of Xerxes there, is in plain view; the blue Aegeanstretches far away to the southern horizon; and a marb
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