_On the top. Tourists discovered making more or less appropriate remarks._ [Illustration: STRUGGLING WITH A LONG PRINTED PANORAMA.] FIRST TOURIST (_struggling with a long printed panorama, which flaps like a sail_). Grand view, Sir, get 'em all from here, you see! Monte Rosa, Matterhorn, Breithorn---- [_Works through them all conscientiously, until, much to everybody's relief, his panorama escapes into space._ SECOND T. (_a lady, with the air of a person making a discovery_). How wonderfully small everything looks down below! THIRD T. (_a British Matron, with a talent for incongruity_). Yes, dear, very--_quite_ worth coming all this way for; but as I was telling you, we've always been accustomed to such an evangelical service, so that our new Rector is really _rather_--but we're quite _friendly_ of course; go there for tennis, and he dines with us, and all that. Still, I _do_ think, when it comes to having lighted candles in broad _daylight_----(_&c., &c._) FOURTH T. (_an equally incongruous American_). Wa'al, yes, they show up well, cert'nly, those peaks do. But I was about to remark, Sir, I went to that particular establishment on Fleet Street. I called for a chop. And when it came, I don't deny I felt disappointed, for the plate all around was just as _dry_--! But the moment I struck a fork into that chop, Sir,--well, the way the gravy just came _gushing_ out was--there, it ain't no use me trying to put it in words! But from that instant, Sir, I kinder realized the peculiar charm of your British chop. FIFTH T. (_a discontented Teuton_). I exbected more as zis. It is nod glear enough--nod at all. Zey dolt me from ze dop you see Milan. I look all aroundt. Novere I see Milan! And I lief my obera-glass behint me in ze drain, and I slib on ze grass and sbrain my mittle finger, and altogedder I do not vish I had com. MISS T. (_presenting_ CULCHARD _to_ MR. CYRUS K. T.). I guess you've met _this_ gentleman before! MR. T. Well now, that's _so_. I didn't just reckon I'd meet him again all this way above the sea-level though, but I'm just as pleased to see him. Rode up on the cars, I presume, Sir? Tolerable hilly road all the way, _ain't_ it now? There cann't anybody say we hain't made the most of _our_ time since you left us. Took a run over to Berlin; had two hours and a haff in that city, and I dunno as I keered about making a more pro-tracted visit. Went right through to Vi-enna, saw round Vi-enna. I did want, being so near, to just waltz into Turkey and see that. But I guess Turkey 'll have to keep till next time. Then back again into Switzerland, for I do seem to have kinder taken a fancy to Switzerland. I'd like to have put in more time there, and we stayed best part of a week too! But Italy's an interesting place. Yes, I'm getting considerable interested in Italy, so far as I've got. There's Geneva now----