VI. 



A DAY IN A QUARRY. 



1 Go forth under the open sky, and list 

 To Nature's teachings." 



BRYANT. 



J Y friend Baxter though that is not his 

 real name happened to be spending 

 his summer holiday in the vicinity of 

 far-famed Malvern at the same time 

 as myself. One bright morning, as I was just 

 starting oif for a geological ramble, he met me, 

 and looking at me with a half-bewildered, half- 

 amused stare at my leathern bag slung over my 

 shoulder, and my thick walking-stick spud in my 

 hand, he said, " Why, you surely have not turned 

 rural postman, have you? Where in the world 

 are you off to ? " 



" I'm going a-geologising," I replied ; " you 

 know the old saying, ' Blessed is the man who 

 has a hobby.' " 



" Well, yon must be thrice blessed," he good- 

 humouredly answered, "for you seem to have a 

 number of hobbies. But what do you say to my 



