DIFFICULTIES, DUMPS AND DIMPLES. 169 



How happy such confidential intimacy, and how human 

 these simple details ! Too earnest men like John would 

 sometimes be inclined to censure even the sun for dancing 

 on a dimpling pool, or laughing on a waterfall, or sparkling 

 on a leaf spray. But what would life be, if the sense of the 

 ludicrous and incongruous were banished from it ? 



