. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . •A CHAPTER IV. COST OF JOURNEYS IN THE LEVANT. Story of Seimiramis and Sardanapalus. HAD been the intention of to spend six months intravel, and to choose routes accord-ing to his own moods and inclina-tions. He was a man of amplemeans and generous impulses, andafter twenty years devotion to business, hewished that his six months rest should be as freefrom care as possible. One day, he and Charlie stepped over from the Golden Cross to the American Exchan
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . •A CHAPTER IV. COST OF JOURNEYS IN THE LEVANT. Story of Seimiramis and Sardanapalus. HAD been the intention of to spend six months intravel, and to choose routes accord-ing to his own moods and inclina-tions. He was a man of amplemeans and generous impulses, andafter twenty years devotion to business, hewished that his six months rest should be as freefrom care as possible. One day, he and Charlie stepped over from the Golden Cross to the American Exchange, to see if there were any letters waiting for them, as several steamers had just arrived. Each had a liberal mail, and they sat down amid the piles of papers at the Exchange to read them. Father, said Charlie at length, could a boy visit Egypt andPalestine for five hundred dollars ? From America? I think so. If he were to take second-classsaloon fares on the steamer, and travel second class in Europe. Hecertainly could visit Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and theJordan for that sum. Why do you 68 ZIG/.AG JOURXEVS IX THE LEVANT. I have here a letter from Charlie Noble. He sa3s that he writesin behalf of some of the schoolboys at Yule. How strange! Hewrites: Can luc meet you at some Mediterranean port .^ Would yourfather be willing that we should accompany him to Cairo and Jeru-salem } What shall I answer} Charlie took up some stamped sheets from one of the writing-tables, and Mr. Lcland began to gather around him the circulars ofCook, Gaze, and other travelling agents, and of the principal lines ofsteamers and railways. Say to Charlie Noble from me, Yes and Come. Charlie wrote, not quite knowing for whose benefit: Fathertells me to write Yes, and Come. What shall I write next} Say, Meet us at Gibraltar, Genoa, Venice, or Malta. Well. Say, The fare to London from New York on the National line,and from London to New York, round-trip ticket, would be $ioo, fir
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