"
"I don't know what can make him go there!" cried Fred; "I wish he
understood about keeping to his own grounds."
"Ponto never lived in Constantinople, that is evident," said Cousin
Peregrine.
"Did you ever live in Constantinople, Cousin?" asked Maggie.
"Yes, Maggie, I am happy to say I have."
"Why are you glad, Cousin?"
"Because in some respects it is the loveliest city on earth, and I am
glad to have seen it."
"Tell us what it is like."
"And tell us why you say Ponto never lived there."
"I was a good deal younger than I am now," said Cousin Peregrine, "when
I saw Constantinople for the first time, and had seen much less of the
world than I have seen since; but even now I remember nothing in my
travels with greater delight than my first sight of that lovely city. It
was from the sea. Do you know anything about the Sea of Marmora, Fred?"
"I don't think I know much," said Fred doubtfully.
"But we've got an atlas," said Maggie, "so you can show it us, you
know."
"Well, give me the map. Here is the Sea of Marmora, with
Turkey-in-Europe on one side of it, and Turkey-in-Asia on the other side
of it. This narrower part that you come into it by is called the
Dardanelles, that narrower part that you go out of it by is called the
Bosphorus.
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