. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). bridges by canals where thousands of bargesare at roost. At roost—at rest! Shall we have rest in thosebedrooms, those ancient lofty bedrooms, in that inn where wehave to pay a florin for a pint of pa—psha! at the New BathHotel on the Boompjes t If this dreary edifice is the NewBath, what must the Old Bath be like ? As I feared to go tobed, I sat in the coffee-room as long as I might;
. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). bridges by canals where thousands of bargesare at roost. At roost—at rest! Shall we have rest in thosebedrooms, those ancient lofty bedrooms, in that inn where wehave to pay a florin for a pint of pa—psha! at the New BathHotel on the Boompjes t If this dreary edifice is the NewBath, what must the Old Bath be like ? As I feared to go tobed, I sat in the coffee-room as long as I might; but threeyoung men were imparting their private adventures to eachother with such freedom and liveliness that I felt I ought notto listen to their artless prattle. As I put the light out, andfelt the bedclothes and darkness overwhelm me, it was with anawful sense of terror—that sort of sensation which I shouldthink going down in a diving-bell would give. Suppose theapparatus goes wrong, and they dont understand your signalto mount ? Suppose your matches miss fire when you wake ;when you want them, when you will have to rise in half an hour,and do battle with the horrid enemy who crawls on you in the. LITTLE DUTCHMEN. NOTES OF A WEEKS HOLIDAY. 157 darkness ? I protest I never was more surprised than when Iwoke and beheld the Hght of dawn. Indian birds and strangetrees were visible on the ancient gilt hangings of the lofty cham-ber, and through the windows the Boompjes and the ships alongthe quay. We have all read of deserters being brought out, andmade to kneel, with their eyes bandaged, and hearing the wordto Fire given ! I declare I underwent all the terrors of exe-cution that night, and wonder how I ever escaped if ever I go to the Bath Hotel, Rotterdam, again, Iam a Dutchman. A guilder for a bottle of pale ale, and thatbottle a pint! Ah ! for shame—for shame ! Mine Ease in Mine Inn.—Do you object to talk aboutinns . It always seems to me to be very go
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