. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . e to be a hundred. By great good lunk we chose a pleasantday for our excursion. To be sure, itrained for a couple of hours in the morn-ing, and several little showers occurredduring the day, but when the sun didshine, it lit up the landscape with such anhonest glow, and gave such variety to thetints of the greensward and the foliage,that we were quite content to take it evenby snatches. But the feature of the tripto me inhered in the countless little beg-gars who beset us along the route. As wesped through the thickly settled parrs ofthe way, swarms
. Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . e to be a hundred. By great good lunk we chose a pleasantday for our excursion. To be sure, itrained for a couple of hours in the morn-ing, and several little showers occurredduring the day, but when the sun didshine, it lit up the landscape with such anhonest glow, and gave such variety to thetints of the greensward and the foliage,that we were quite content to take it evenby snatches. But the feature of the tripto me inhered in the countless little beg-gars who beset us along the route. As wesped through the thickly settled parrs ofthe way, swarms of boys and girls fromfour to ten years of nge would emerge fromthe dwelliugB and the cross sireeis, andkeeping pace with our fast Hyicg omnibus,as they hemmed it in on all sides, wouldlook anxiously up at the face of the pas-sengers, extending their open bands orhate-those who had them — and cryingwith musical tone and cadence, Pooroot!Pooroot! Pooroot! The scene, or rather the sound, remindedme of the peculiar wayside music so familiar. that is exacted by every servant againstwhom you rub. At first you feel inclinedto protest against the imposition ; call itan outrage, a swindle, aud variousother American things; possibly refuse tobe put u()on in this pestiferous manner, butyou will soon learn that the easiest way isthe best, and like all other Americans whohave preceded you, will settle down intothe rut, keep your pockets well supplied,and scatter the shekels bountifully where-ever you go. But aside from the forced contributionsare the numerous appeals which beset youon every hand : first, by the sellers of «o«-venir trinkets, whom in your overwroughtenthusiasm you are disposed to patronizeuntil you find yourself borne down withuseless rubbish ; and next by the outrightbeggar whose name and devices are of these, as in various parts of North-ern Italy and Switzerland, appeal to yoursympathy in spite of your stomach, throughthe most hideous and repulsive exhib
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