FOOT-PATHS. 205 



ration in so simple and natural a pastime. You are 

 eligible to any good fortune when you are in the 

 condition to enjoy a walk. When the air and water 

 tastes sweet to you, how much else will taste sweet ! 

 When the exercise of your limbs affords you pleasure^ 

 and the play of your senses upon the various objects 

 and shows of nature quickens and stimulates your 

 spirit, your relation to the world and to yourself is 

 what it should be simple and direct and whole- 

 some. The mood in which you set out on a spring 

 or autumn ramble or a sturdy winter walk, and your 

 greedy feet have to be restrained from devouring 

 the distances too fast, is the mood in which your best 

 thoughts and impulses come to you, or in which you 

 might embark upon any noble and heroic enterprise. 

 Life is sweet in such moods, the universe is complete, 

 and there is no failure or imperfection anywhere. 



