A "Board Walk" of the Woods 



very busy, in short, doing nothing but 

 enjoying themselves. To this latter 

 statement there must be made one ex- 

 ception, for every now and then you 

 can see some able-bodied creature, 

 corresponding one might say to a 

 porter at the Traymore, wrestling with 

 a huge piece of baggage; only he has 

 more speed than the average "smasher" 

 manipulating a wardrobe trunk. First 

 he shoves it along in front, then sud- 

 denly whirls about and drags it, appar- 

 ently without any care as to whether 

 he damages anything or not. Or, 

 maybe he drags it first, and pushes it 

 afterwards, for I don't know which is 

 fore and which is aft in antian anat- 

 omy. He may have his forelegs about 

 it or his hind ones. I do not know as 

 to that. Anyway, he makes good 

 progress with it until he strikes one 

 of the little crevices that separate the 

 surfaces of the sections of concrete 

 walks, when down he goes baggage and 

 all, end over end, into what must 

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