BATH CHAIR AND HEATHER 



is occasionally carried back to his cook <who, it seems, 

 duly loves him) by Juvenal the tender-hearted. 

 It is very difficult to reach the moors, with this discursive- 

 ness ! But, in a sunshine as blazing as that which ever 

 fell from any Italian sky, we did get into the hollow of the 

 heather hills, and there spend an afternoon of perfect 

 dreaminess and pleasure. 



Loki's Grandfather took off his coat and marched up the 

 slippery paths, the bath-chair bumping merrily after him. 

 It is one of his male prerogatives to scorn the idea of 

 sunstroke, and Loki's Grandmother is filled with appre- 

 hensions half the time. But when she saw him stretched 

 on a rug over the heather, smoking his pipe, and the four 

 dogs cast themselves down in attitudes expressive of their 

 different natures, the mental horizon became cloudless. 

 The material skiesif such an adjective can be used in 

 such connexion the unplumbed dome of mystery above 

 us, were by no means cloudless, and that was part of their 

 wonderful beauty. Huge lazy white clouds, so luminous 

 as to be dazzling, sailed over the rim of the moor and cast 

 shadows of indescribable mauve and purple into the hollows. 

 A day of such intense light it was that every tree in the 

 thick of the woods flung its patch of shadow, purple-dark 

 against the vivid green. And, oh, the colour of the Ling, 

 mixed with Hill Heather, set with islands of Bracken- 

 Bracken in its proper place silver under the sun rays, 

 against the blue ! And the scent of the Heath and the 

 Whin! 



One doesn't know if it is exactly one's soul that the 

 beauty touches, the appeal is so strongly to the senses. 

 But the soul is of it/ for no mere physical joy can give 



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