12 STUDIES OF NATURE 



hours between breakfast and early dinner, we 

 saunter up and down the liquid plain ; or, keep- 

 ing close in- shore, wander round the tiny creeks 

 and coves. This is that judicious idleness 

 which, if we can only attain unto it, is the proper 

 object of a long vacation. 



The best view of Corrie is to be gained from 

 the water. Lying out, two or three hundred 

 yards from the beach, we take in the whole 

 place at a glance. Its elements are very simple. 

 At the south end is the hotel, where the hostess, 

 a model landlady, buxom, cheerful, motherly, 

 dispenses hospitality with genial firmness. The 

 tourist who can ' get in ' there either by grace or 

 importunity, is a fortunate person, and many 

 are the strange roosting-places which walking- 

 men will put up with rather than be turned 

 away from the door. At the north end is the 

 school, a good building, and constructed, like the 

 hotel, of dark sandstone. Between these two 

 is the village, an irregular string of white, low- 



