1. “WHERE ARE YOU GOING?”

       2. “WHAT PLACE DO YOU HAIL FROM?”

       3. “CONCLUDE YOU GO

        TOE

       FRANK­FORT?”

       4. “YOU’RE MR. BROWN, I RECKON?”

       5. “WHAT NAMES DO YOUR FRIENDS GO BY?”

       STATEMENTS MADE DURING THE SAME PERIOD.

       1. “THIS HERE RHINE AIN’T MUCH BY THE SIDE OF OUR MISSISSIPPI.”

       2. “OLD EUROPE IS ’TARNALLY CHAWED UP.”

       ROBINSON WAS VERY MERRY ABOUT THIS INCIDENT, AND BOTH HE AND JONES KEPT POKING FUN AT BROWN DURING THE REST OF THE DAY. THEY PARODIED THE WELL KNOWN SONG OF “MY HEART’S ON THE RHINE,” SUBSTITUTING “MY HAT’S IN THE RHINE;”—(IT WAS VERY POOR STUFF, WE HAVE BEEN ASSURED BY BROWN)—AND THEY MADE POINTED ALLUSIONS TO THE NAME OF “WIDE-AWAKE.”

       THE ABOVE DRAWING IS FROM A RUDE SKETCH BY JONES.

   THE SCENERY BECOMES MYSTERIOUS.

   THEY NOW BECAME ENVELOPED IN WHAT SEEMED A COMBINATION OF FOG (LONDON NOVEMBER) AND MIST (SCOTCH). ONLY THINK OF THOSE TWO NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS GOING UP THE RHINE WITH THE REST OF THE FASHIONABLE WORLD. AT FIRST IT OBSCURED THE HILL TOPS, WITH THE RUINS THEREON; THEN THE VILLAGES AND VINEYARDS BELOW; AND FINALLY BOTH BANKS OF THE RIVER ENTIRELY DISAPPEARED. THE COMPANY ON BOARD THE STEAMBOAT DID NOT, AT THIS PERIOD, PRESENT THE MOST CHEERFUL ASPECT.

     MAYENCE TO FRANKFORT.

   HOW ROBINSON’S FAVOURITE PORTMANTEAU, WHICH HE HAD FORGOTTEN TO LOCK, WAS DROPPED ACCIDENTALLY BY A PORTER WHILE CONVEYING IT TO THE OMNIBUS.

   JONES HINTS TO ROBINSON THAT IT IS TIME 

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