CHAPTEE V. 



PAPAYER RHOEAS. 



BRANT WOOD, July llth, 1875. 



1. CHANCING to take up yesterday a favourite old book, 

 Mayor's British Tourists, (London, 1798,) I found in its 

 fourth volume a delightful diary of a journey made in 

 1782 through various parts of England, by Charles P. 

 Moritz of Berlin. 



And in the fourteenth page of this diary I find the 

 following passage, pleasantly complimentary to Eng- 

 land : 



" The slices of bread and butter which they give you 

 with your tea are as thin as poppy leaves. But there is 

 another kind of bread and butter usually eaten with tea, 

 which is toasted by the fire, and is incomparably" good. 

 This is called < toast.'" 



I wonder how many people, nowadays, whose bread 

 and butter was cut too thin for them, would think of 

 comparing the slices to poppy leaves? But this was in 

 the old days of travelling, when people did not whirl 

 themselves past corn-fields, that they might have more 

 time to walk on paving-stones ; and understood that pop 



