On the evening of the second day, the landlady allowed a second knife at tea, as the knife-of-all-work had begun to knock up under the heavy strain upon its powers; but this supplementary instrument was of the ornamental kind, and, like other ornamental things, broke down at a crisis, which took the form of a piece of crust.
Lest this account should raise anyone's expectations too high, it is as well to add that they have no snuffers in S.Georges, beyond such as Nature provided when she gave men fingers; and they burn attenuated tallow candles with full-bodied wicks.

Also, the tea is flavoured with vanille, unless that precious flavouring is omitted by private contract.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 12: On our previous visit, in 1861, we passed from Arzier through Longirod and Marchissy, stopping to measure and admire the huge lime-tree in the churchyard of the latter village.

Our Swiss companion on that occasion was anxious that we should carry home some ice from the cave; and as the communal law forbade the removal of the ice by strangers, he hunted up a cousin in Marchissy, and sent him with a _hotte_ across country, while we went innocently by the ordinary route through S.Georges.The cousin, however, contrived to lose himself in the woods, and we never heard of him again.] [Footnote 13: The size of this basin is exaggerated in the engraving on page 24, owing to the roughness of the original sketch.] [Footnote 14: See p.

253.] [Footnote 15: For further details on this point see pages 54 and 83.] [Footnote 16: These ladders have at best but little stability, as they consist of two uprights, careless about the coincidence of the holes, with bars poked loosely through and left to fall out or stay in as they choose, the former being the prevailing choice.

One of the ladders happened to be firmer than the generality of its kind; but, unfortunately, its legs were of unequal lengths, and so it turned round with one of my sisters, leaving her clinging like a cat to the under side.