We learned, too, that mountains are not so hospitable as they seem nor so gently undulating as they appear in the distance, and that guides serve other purposes besides extorting money from travelers.

If, under their guidance, we had gone up and down easily, we should always have thought we might as well have gone alone.

So our experience gave us a good lesson in humility.

We had been twelve hours on foot with nothing to eat, when at last we reached the hotel.

We were in no mood for boasting of the success of our excursion, and our answers were short to inquiries as to how we had passed the day.
Being tired of traveling and contending about woman's sphere with the Rev.John Scoble, an Englishman, who escorted Mr.Birney and Mr.Stanton on their tour through the country, I decided to spend a month in Dublin; while the gentlemen held meetings in Cork, Belfast, Waterford, Limerick, and other chief towns, finishing the series with a large, enthusiastic gathering in Dublin, at which O'Connell made one of his most withering speeches on American slavery; the inconsistency of such an "institution" with the principles of a republican government giving full play to his powers of sarcasm.