206 In Touch with Nature. 



liancy. It was friendship enough to have them 

 light our path, and while yesterday was a memory 

 and to-morrow but vague expectation, the woods 

 and waters, meadows and fair fields awaited the 

 rambler. 



Says Zadkiel, " Travel and visit thy friends." It 

 is well to do this in the order given : travelling 

 first, for only too vividly the rambler recalls the 

 torrid noontides of this ripened season ; recalls 

 what time 



" The sun, from meridian height, 



Illumines the depths of the sea ; 

 And fishes, beginning to sweat, 

 Cry " 



Well, let their excusable profanity go unrecorded. 

 It is enough to know that long before noonday 

 wild life, as a whole, will gladly seek the shade, 

 leaving the world to parched weeds and fiery 

 dragon-flies. And so, having travelled while the 

 day was new, your friends will be gathered in the 

 shady nook in which you take refuge. 



So ran my anticipatory thoughts as I wormed 

 my way along the village street, and what now of 



