Methorn,

        Stealing to set tory

        I saken for illiam o the isp,

        I AM someiquity-er, and am    fond of expl London i of times.

        to be found in ty, s lost in a ar, but deriving poetical and romantiterest from truce of t summer ramble into ty; for ty is only to be explored to advantage in summer-time, ime against t of populatioing t Street. trung my nerves and made me sensitive to every jar and jostle and discordant sound. t faint, and I ting out of ling busy tle, ion I tore my o a by-lane, and, after passing to a quaint and quiet court    in tre over perpetually fresain s sparkli of er. A student ed on a stone bencly reading, partly meditating on ts of trim nursery-maids    charges.

        I erility of t. By degrees t and ess of t.

        I pursued my    assive and ricecture.

        terior y and lighted from above.

        Around al tombs of a date on ly crossed upon t; otility even in tomb, o the holy Land.

        I , in ts templars, strangely     situated in tre of sordid traf?d I do not knoo turn aside from t do-fullness.

        In a subsequent tour of observation I entered anot;fone ; locked up in t of ty. I ime tonous streets, destitute of anyto strike te tion, iquity. It opened into a spacious quadrangle f tyard of a stately Gotal of ingly open.

        It ly a public edi?ce, and, as I iquity-ing, I ventured in, teps.

        Meeting no oo oppose or rebuke my intrusion, I tinued on until I found myself in a great y arcecture. At one end of ttles oform, or dais, t of state, above    of a man in antique garb h a long robe, a ruff, and a venerable gray beard.

        tablis ic quiet and seclusion, and    a mysterious c I    met hreshold.

        Enced by ted myself in a recess of a large boed a broad ?ood of yellos from panes of class,    in t summer air. able, I indulged in a sort of reverie about    ly been of monastic in; pere establiss built of yore for tion of learning,    monk, in tude of ter, added page to page and volume to volume, emulating in tions of ude of ted.

        As I ed in t t ma uttering a he lower end.

        I ruck iquated air ported yle of t venerable and mysterious pile. It s of ted years, about , in t of romao explore ured to myself a realm of sing in tre of substantial realities.

        My ramble led me terior courts and corridors and dilapidated cloisters, for tions and dependencies, built at various times and in various styles. In one open space a number of boys, o tablis,    ts, but everyles, sometimes sauntering alone, sometimes versing in groups; to be to mind imes, augablis of t?

        to a ge and uncouts--implements of savage range idols and stuffed alligators; bottled serpents and monsters decorated telpiece; er of an old-fasead grinned a .

        I approacard more narroic g laboratory for a neancer, led at beearing at me from a dusky er. It    of a small, s eyes, and gray, ing eyebro ?rst doubted    a mummy curiously preserved, but it moved, and I sa it     pe garb, and ter objects by    I ernity.

        Seeing me pausing before ted me to enter. I obeyed    not metamorpo some strange monster or jure me into one of ttles on elpiece? o be anyt a jurer, and y soon dispelled all tery iquated pile and its no less antiquated inants.

        It appeared t I o tre of an a asylum for superanradesmen and decayed ed a sumber of boys. It uries sin an old monastic establis, aained someual air ales o magi, turned out to be turning from m, servi the chapel.

        Jotle collector of curiosities ed tling-place of ies picked up in the course of his life.

        Acc to ,    of a traveller,    to ted er try, "as t ; ly a traveller of the simple kind.

        ocratical too in ions, keeping aloof, as I found, from tes , and a broken-doleman y t en tion of tle o sider it an indubitable sign of gentle blood as y spirit to be able to squander suormous sums.

        P.S.--turesque remnant of old times into er reuse. It    vent, by Sir tton, being one of ties set on foot by individual muni?ce, a up ness and sanctity of aimes amidst tions of London. y broken-doer days, are provided in te expeogetory of t.

        Attaco tablis is a scy-four boys.

        Sto, speaking of tions of t;t to intermeddle oucal, but to attend only to take t is provided for t muttering, murmuring, ing. o    sucal-men to ; "And in trut; adds Sto; are so taken from to care for but tod, and to live in brot;

        For t of sucerested by t doion, and tle more about teries of London, I subjoin a modicum of local ory put into my leman, in a small bro, ed sly after my visit to ter tle dubious at ?rst    one of tales often passed off upon inquiring travellers like myself, and y into suced reproac satisfactory assurances of ty, and indeed old t ually engaged in a full and particular at of teresting region in e.
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