1 82 Four-in-Hand i7t Britain. 



in the open air, that is the other view of the question. 

 The ancients did not count against our httle span of 

 life the days spent in the chase ; neither need we charge 

 those spent in cricket ; and as for our sport, coaching, 

 for every day so spent we decided that it and another 

 might safely be credited. He was a very wise prime 

 minister who said he had often found important duties 

 for which he had not time ; one duty, however, he had 

 always made time for, his daily afternoon ride on horse- 

 back. Your always busy man accomplishes little ; the 

 great doer is he who has plenty of leisure. The man at 

 the helm turns the wheel now and then, and so easily 

 too, touching an electric bell ; it's the stoker down be- 

 low who is pitching into it with his coat off. And look 

 at Captain McMicken promenading the deck in his 

 uniform and a face like a full moon ; quite at his ease 

 and ready for a story. And there is Johnnie Watson, 

 chief engineer, who rules over the throbbing heart of 

 the ship ; he is standing there prepared for a crack. 

 Moral : Don't worry yourself over work, hold yourself 

 in reserve, and sure as fate, " it will all come right in 

 the wash." 



Leaving the contestants, we walked down to the lake 

 in front of the mansion, and with our usual good for- 

 tune we were just in time to see the twenty acres of 

 ornamental water dragged for pike, which play such 

 havoc with other fish. The water had been drained 

 into a small pond, which seemed alive with bewildered 



