240 Fou7'-in-Hand in Bi'itain, 



Anderton Hall caught the fever, as was usual with 

 neophytes, and regretted that their return was impera- 

 tively required. One day gave them a taste of the true 

 gypsy life. Hesketh was " in the Forest," no doubt, 

 but this was many long years ago. To-day there is 

 nothing to justify its name. Smiling green fields, roads 

 as perfect as they can be made, pretty houses, trim 

 hedge-rows and gardens, and all so intensely civilized as 

 to bring vividly before you the never ceasing change 

 which the surface of the earth undergoes to fit it for the 

 sustenance of dense masses of men. 



Carlisle, July 15. 



Here is reconstruction for you with a vengeance ! 

 First, let us mourn the unhappy departures : Mr. and 

 Mrs. K. went yesterday and Miss R., Miss G., the Misses 

 B., Miss D. and Mr. B. and son go to-day. Cousin 

 Maggie, who had become absorbed in this kind of life, 

 so dazed with happiness, her turn has come too, even 

 she must go ; Andrew M., with his fine Scotch aroma 

 and his songs, must report to his superior officer at the 

 encampment, for is he not a gallant volunteer and an 

 ofificer under Her Majesty, " sworn never to desert his 

 home except in case of invasion ! " Well, we cannot help 

 these miserable changes in this world, nor the *' sawt, 

 sawt tears " of the young ladies as they kiss each other, 

 swearing eternal friendship, and sob good-byes. 



But if farewell ever sighs, welcome comes in smiling. 



