Briefless barristers, physicians without practice, office-clerks, poor students, apprentices, and shop-boys drop down like hail on the Eternal City, for the sake of saying that they have taken the Communion in it.

The Holy Week brings every year a swarm of these locusts.

Their entire _impedimenta_ consist of a carpet-bag and an umbrella, and of course they put up at a hotel.

In fact hotels have been built on purpose to receive them.

When everybody hired houses, there was no need of hotels.