If we had had to do this work when we first left Paris, I have no doubt that I should have felt it, but the journey here has been a fine preparation.

Another thing is, that every morning I take a dip in the first mountain stream I come to, and that does one almost as much good as a night's sleep." De Lisle shivered.

"It may do good, Campbell, but I would not jump into one of these icy streams for anything.

It makes one shudder to think of it." "I always had a swim in the Seine every morning when it was not closed by ice," Hector said.

"I was told that there was nothing braced one up and made one so hardy as that; and I certainly found that even in the coldest weather I never felt the need of a cloak." "Well, I don't deny that it may be a good custom, and if all Scotchmen do it, it may account for their hardiness; but I like comfort when I can get it." "But it is not comfort to be always in the saddle, and to feel so sleepy that you fancy that at any moment you may fall off.