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AROUND LULLWATER. 



One of the loveliest rambles in the Park 

 lies through those winding vistas of trees and water 

 which the architect has wrought into "Lullwater." 

 It is well named, for the water seems hushed to sleep in 

 cozy coves and inlets. It is so shut off and retired that 

 it has a charm of seclusion all its own. Here in the 

 early morning the gold fish swirl and leap as they 

 feed and break the dreaming waters with quick 

 splashes. Here the sunshine pours down and puts 

 a glory of quivering and illumined green be- 

 fore your eyes. In the Arbor here you can 

 pass enchanted hours, watching the sweep of the 

 kingbird or listening to the soft knocking call 

 of the yellow-billed cuckoo. The boats glide 

 by, reflecting, in dancing vines of light and shade along 

 their polished sides, the tremble of the sunbeams on the 

 waters. The robins send down querulous calls from 

 the living green about you, and the soft cottony clouds 

 float over the tree tops, in the purest of white. The 

 breeze comes at times touching' the waters with feet 

 of silver and sets all the leaves on fire with a flame 

 of white light which sweeps through them in swift 

 showers like sudden rain. Come here when you 

 will, it is always beautiful ; be it in spring when 

 the new greens are hanging their illumined beauties 



