The Four Corners Abroad

o see the whole of Oxford to-day and go to Stratford

ered Jo sleepi

older, the black tea is getting blacker, the eggs getting harder and th

s late as that?" said

rmalade you don't like," replied Nan over

m her bed to rush through her toil

e to see Oxford," said Miss Hele

interested in Oxford? Of course I will go with you all if you insist, but if it were Earl's Court, for example, where there is a maze,

d High Street the noblest old street in England, s

n's walk,"

. As for the colleges themselves, with their chapels and quadrangles, if y

entire summer which ca

Miss Hel

nterrupted Nan, "and we know all about th

brood together. Don't dawdle,

short time, and they set forth to go from college to college, to walk up

onfused jumble of colleges in my brain, and can't for the l

my dear," said Nan, "a

every

dings, more or less resembling each other, lovely gardens, chapels and cloisters, a cathedral, a library and one long fine street. That is all the impression my mind has received. A

ther day of it, Mi

train for Warwick in the afternoon. It is not

ll become Shakespeare mad, and for Warwick wh

ractive to the twins than the little tea-garden

ar little place," said

ge with vines all o

garden down to the very w

ook at the ducks!

he Avon?" asked Jo. "What a fin

in," said Mrs. Corner sinking into

have plum-cake?

aimed Jack

such a charming spot, H

my pleasantest memories of Warwick. Mother a

of the tables sipping her tea and looking up at the great castle walls. The girl turned to her Aunt Helen. "I am glad you told us

ry, isn't it? They are going to stop here for tea. Aren't the men fine looking, and the girls are exactly like

e others were still sipping their tea. "It will be s

her plum-cake to the ducks but concluded she would give them some

al chimes were ringing for six o'clock when they reached the hotel, enthusiast

Lakes, leaving Mrs. Corner and the twins at Warwick, a place where they were delighted to stay, with a promise of the tea-garden every afternoon and a sight of the peacocks on the wall of Warwick Castle between whiles. Mary Lee declared she much preferred Grasmere to Cambridge, and so Nan had h

ehind. Daniella had bidden them all a reluctant farewell. The summer had been a sort of fairy-tale to the little mountain girl, and if she had not received altogether correct impressions, and had often been bewildered, yet she had made great progress and could scarcely be recognized as the same girl who had so fearfully entered Miss Barnes'

ettle down for days of study. The two younger girls were to be day-boarders in a small school, while the three elder ones were to

ou?" said Jean wistfully. "You're not going to

Christmas anyhow," she promised, "and then if I must go away for the c

own to the new conditions. "Shall we have to wear funny hats and do our hair in braids up over the tops of our heads or

one in that direction," her mother told h

er hair done like ours, and Fr?ulein marched her out of the room and slicked up her hair and

ise. We don't dare turn our heads, and the girls look so creer in those funny little flat

er or a Quaker?" ask

ou spell with a cu," re

eir eyes to be in this beautiful place and have the chances you have? We have been junketing around for so long that we don't want to do anything else. Every mother's dau

aid Jack. "You are going to operas and

s are a part of my musical education; they would bore yo

o her eldest sister's lap. Nan al

those in England. There is a playground for children there and fine walks and drives. T

ry-go-rounds a

ever s

ught her hands s

the Isarthal, and on some other days there is music played by military bands in different places. I believe it is every day at the Guardhouse on the Marienplatz,

ha

will be lot

skate v

dren, and at other times there is the marionette theatre that you and Jean will adore. Then, too, w

t ki

and rodeling

and I haven't the leas

ething like flying. Then there will be the carnival that begins in January, though I don't suppose we shall see much of that. Besides, Jack," she went on, "the Munich streets are lovely. There are so many pretty squares a

, you dear old Nan," said Jack, rub

ghty well but her German isn't up to the scratch, she thinks, and s

to stay in this

week there will be, and we shall probably stay there till we go to Italy. Aunt Helen says it is

e any other l

and practice that dreadful Bach thing that I am gettin

r mother. "She always smooths out the wrinkles f

to worry about that just ye

g; I'm just taking t

ed outright while

t pretty square where the

ike you to

and see it, and I am asking permission," said Jack

don't run about as freely as they do at home.

has gone somewhere with Jo, and Aunt Helen we

and sit by the fountain w

to be admired and they were never tired of watching, what Jack called, its big splash of water. "I feel so sa

r little doggie," said Jean as she watched

arry him around everywhere, and there is a law in some countries which makes it v

me," said Jack, whose dog th

l be quite ready to make frien

Munich," said Jean. "I think everybody must own a do

bodies they look so funny, and they have such serious faces as if they h

Helen and the g

d the little incline which led past the bench where the three w

by the fountain. Isn't it a beaut

think this is a very convenient part of the city, for we ar

her fingers before to-morrow, so she is t

I like about Munich. Nobody seems to mind wandering about deliberately. Men and women take time to stare into the shop-windows, and no one pays the least attention to them. You can wear your old clothes and not feel that you are dressed worse than half your ne

her watch. "It is just

I want her to come with you to join us at the Conditorei on the Promenadepla

r this would be a new entertai

Conditorei?

It is a very pleasant place to go. You can choose your cakes at the counter and take them to the tab

for then you get them sooner. I am very glad you came along, Aunt

ant little place watching the persons who came and went. There were many Americans among them

outside the churches you see them sometimes waiting for their masters. I like the way they are made to belong to the family and taken out as

orses with such noble arched necks, except in pictures or in statuary. They

rses, and you always see them harnessed to the big wagons. The oxen here are very large,

mes you will see a wagon with a horse harnessed to one side the pole a

ovepipe and things like that. The dog was pulling just as hard as the man and when the man stopped the dog lay down and seemed so pleased t

e last morsel of her cake. "It was so good,"

enten cake is quite enough for one afternoon. Another ti

we had to miss the Wagner Festival at the Prinz-Regenten

all the opera necessary. The prices at the Festival are so very high, five dollars for a single performance, and I am told it is

"She already has ten post-card pictures of

ldn't I want to hear him; besides he isn't like some of the others, for e

ow so much?" a

teacher

what you t

history of music as well as the theory and prac

ising to go. "Well, Nan, I hope you will

with conviction. "Frau Burg-Schmid

e Maximilianplatz to their hotel, feeling that they

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