PREFACE 



THE present volume may be regarded as, in 

 some degree, a sequel or pendant to a previous 

 work of the author's, published in 1879, and 

 subsequently re-issued several times under the 

 title of ' Country Pleasures.' The motive and 

 plan of the two books are to a large extent the 

 same. What is here presented is not the result 

 of elaboration or afterthought, but is that which 

 was written down at the time in journal-form 

 when the impressions were fresh and vivid. 



The writer can only expect that his unpre- 

 tentious notes will prove interesting to those 



