I'll want to settle down in some comfortable place and stay there." "From what he said last night, I judge that this is the last time he expects to visit that part of Switzerland.

When he was a little boy he used to visit his grandmother, who lived near Zug.

The chalet where she lived is still standing, and he wants to see it once more, he said, before he dies." "He must know lots of stories about the place," said Lloyd.
"He does.

He has tramped all over the mountain back of the town after wild strawberries, followed the peasants to the mowing, and gone to many a fete in the village.

We are fortunate to have such an interesting guide." "I wish that Betty could be with us to hear all the stories he tells us," said Lloyd, beginning to look forward to the journey with more pleasure, now that she knew there was a prospect of being entertained by the Major.
Usually she grew tired of the confinement in the little railway carriages where there were no aisles to walk up and down in, and fidgeted and yawned and asked the time of day at every station.
During the first part of the journey toward Zug, the Major had little to say.