[Sidenote: 1880.]
When the children met him the next week, Uncle Fritz said that as they
had gone so far east in their two afternoons, they would do well to
look over some of the accounts of the Crusaders’ expeditions.
The boys were well pleased at this suggestion. Some of them knew
Froissart, and all of them had read “Ivanhoe,” and “The Talisman,” and
“Count Robert of Paris.”
So Uncle Fritz sent again for the “Travels in Palestine,” in the same
volume of Bohn’s Antiquarian Library, and Bedford first, and Esther
afterward, read the extracts he had marked for them from