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Policemen, in cocked
hats and epaulets, cross-belts, and swords, were scattered about the
grounds, but interfered with nobody, though they seemed to keep an eye on
all. A sentinel stood in the hot sunshine, looking down over the garden
from the ramparts of the fortress.
For my part, in this foreign country, I have no objection to policemen or
any other minister of authority; though I remember, in America, I had an
innate antipathy to constables, and always sided with the mob against
law. This was very wrong and foolish, considering that I was one of
the sovereigns; but a sovereign, or any number of sovereigns, or the
twenty-millionth part of a sovereign, does not love to find himself, as
an American must, included within the delegated authority of his own
servants.
There is a sheet of water somewhere in the Boboli Gardens, inhabited by
swans; but this we did not see. We found a smaller pond, however, set
in marble, and surrounded by a parapet, and alive with a multitude of
fish.


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