BY FRANCIS O'CONNOR.
I could be "as tedious as a king," in analyzing those chivalrous
instincts of masculine youth that lured me from college at nineteen,
and away over the watery deserts of the sea; and, like Dogberry, "I
could find in my heart to bestow it all of your worships." But since,
like the auditor of that worthy, you do not want it, I will pass over
the embarkation, which was tedious, over the sea-sickness, which was
more tedious, over the home-sickness, over the monotonous duties
assigned me, and the unvarying prospect of sea and sky, all so tedious
that I grew as morose after a time as a travelling Englishman. Neither
was coasting, with restricted liberty and much toil, amongst people
whose language I could not speak, quite all that my fancy painted
it,--although Genoa, Venice, the Bay of Naples,--crimsoned by Vesuvius,
and canopied by an Italian sky,--and the storied scenes of Greece, all
rich in beauties and historic associations, repaid many discomforts
at the time and remain to me forever as treasures of memory the more
precious for being dearly bought.
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