After a peal of laughter, that it was a cordial to hear, and after venting his watchword three times, he turned short grave, and told Gerard Dusseldorf was no place for them.

"That old fellow," said he, "went off unnaturally silent for such a babbler: we are strangers here; the bailiff is his friend: in five minutes we shall lie in a dungeon for assaulting a Dusseldorf dignity, are you strong enough to hobble to the water's edge?
it is hard by.

Once there you have but to lie down in a boat instead of a bed; and what is the odds ?" "The odds, Denys?
untold, and all in favour of the boat.

I pine for Rome; for Rome is my road to Sevenbergen; and then we shall lie in the boat, but ON the Rhine, the famous Rhine; the cool, refreshing Rhine.
I feel its breezes coming: the very sight will cure a little hop-'o-my-thumb fever like mine; away! away!" Finding his excitable friend in this mood, Denys settled hastily with the landlord, and they hurried to the river.

On inquiry they found to their dismay that the public boat was gone this half hour, and no other would start that day, being afternoon.