ON THE COAST OF AEEAN 11 



CHAPTEK II 



They fancied the light air 

 That circled freshly in their forest dress 

 Made them to boys again. Happier that they 

 Slipped off their pack of duties, leagues behind. 

 , . . . Lords of this realm, 

 Bounded by dawn and sunset, and the day 

 Eounded by hours where each outdid the last 

 In miracles of pomp, we must be proud, 

 As if associates of the sylvan gods. 



EALPH WALDO EMEESON, The Adirondacs. 



COEKIE : Monday, August 4. 



' WHEN you have nothing else to do,' says 

 John Campbell, * take to the boat ' that is good 

 advice, and we often follow it here. Our own 

 little shallop lies at the landing- slip, only a few 

 yards from the door, and we get into it as easily 

 as one puts on a pair of shoes. It is, indeed, 

 our ' water-shoe,' and by means of it, during the 



