No--that statement will hardly wash.

We are just from America ourselves.

We heard nothing about it.

Christopher Colombo -- pleasant name--is--is he dead ?" "Oh, corpo di Baccho!--three hundred year!" "What did he die of ?" "I do not know!--I can not tell." "Small-pox, think ?" "I do not know, genteelmen!--I do not know what he die of!" "Measles, likely ?" "May be--may be--I do not know--I think he die of somethings." "Parents living ?" "Im-poseeeble!" "Ah--which is the bust and which is the pedestal ?" "Santa Maria!--zis ze bust!--zis ze pedestal!" "Ah, I see, I see--happy combination--very happy combination, indeed.
Is--is this the first time this gentleman was ever on a bust ?" That joke was lost on the foreigner--guides can not master the subtleties of the American joke.
We have made it interesting for this Roman guide.

Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican, again, that wonderful world of curiosities.