. Three weeks in the British Isles . irst stop is Luss, where we wait for thenext steamer to Ardlui. There is a charge ofthree cents each for pier dues while waiting forthe boat. Tiring of the planks, we go up intothe town. There is another charge of two centseach to get back to the pier. Shades of Rob Roy! Always inquire at every opportunity regardingboats or trains. Your information will be wrongthree times out of ten, but if you try to guess,you will miss it five times in the same number;so the odds are in favor of making the inquiry. The above wisdom cost us about ninety centseach to acqui
. Three weeks in the British Isles . irst stop is Luss, where we wait for thenext steamer to Ardlui. There is a charge ofthree cents each for pier dues while waiting forthe boat. Tiring of the planks, we go up intothe town. There is another charge of two centseach to get back to the pier. Shades of Rob Roy! Always inquire at every opportunity regardingboats or trains. Your information will be wrongthree times out of ten, but if you try to guess,you will miss it five times in the same number;so the odds are in favor of making the inquiry. The above wisdom cost us about ninety centseach to acquire. You may have it for nothingand probably will not use it. Luss is a popular place for picnics, and mostof the steamers from the direction of Glasgoware filled with working people on a parties are spreading tablecloths on thepebbly beach of Loch Lomond, but there is noadult bathing and only a few children are no bathhouses, so evidently the -clear,placid waters of the lake are used only forfloating The Trossachs 171 The return steamer to Ardlui has two or threehundred passengers in the usual divided state ofmind as to the question of enjoyment. There area great many children, and the parents are tootired to check them in their freedom. In fact,at the landing places the children are the lastitems looked after in discharging cargo. Father and mother \assemble their heavy lug-gage first, then collect parcels, shawls and um-brellas, and finally ask each other, WheresJohn? or Wheres Mary? They usually sortout their own offspring ist as the boat ties up. Each landing witnesses an exchange of twentyor more passengers. There is something rather trying about theirpetty fees, pier charges and the like. The aggre-gate sum is small, but the repetition is amputate a shilling one penny at a time,like the merciful surgeon who cut oflf the mansarm a little at each operation. But all of these human ingredients cannotalter the fact that Loch Lomon
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