202 Four-in-Hand in Britain. 



and why not of this lamentable end of the would-be 

 wagoner ! 



The day was so warm, and our next stage to Buxton 

 being not very long (twenty-six miles), we decided to 

 spend the day at Edensor and take an evening drive. 

 We met here, enjoying their honeymoon, a bride and 

 groom who were well known to our Wolverhampton 

 delegation, and how do you suppose they were travel- 

 ling? Not in the ordinary mode, I assure you. I 

 mention this incident that some of my charming young 

 lady friends, who give me so much pleasure riding with 

 me, may make a note of it. They were doing beautiful 

 Derbyshire on horseback ! It was delightful to see 

 them start off in this way. I became interested in the 

 bride, who must be no ordinary woman to think of this 

 plan ; she told me it was proving a wonderful success ; 

 and the happy young fellow intimated to me, in a kind 

 of confidential way, that her novel idea was the finest 

 one he had ever been a party to. I asked him if he 

 could honestly recommend it, and he boldly said he 

 could. We must think over this. 



The evening ride was one of our pleasantest experi- 

 ences. How entrancing England is after a warm day, 

 when everything seems to rejoice in the hours of peace, 

 succeeding the sunshine which forces growth ! 



" When the heart-sick earth 

 Turns her broad back upon the gaudy sun, 



