92 STUDIES OF NATURE 



CHAPTEE X 



Sport that wrinkled care derides, 

 And laughter holding both his sides. 



MILTON, L' Allegro. 



By sports like these are all their cares beguiled ; 

 The sports of children satisfy the child. 



GOLDSMITH, The Traveller. 



CORRIE : Saturday, August 16. 



WIND north-east. It is curious that with the 

 wind in this quarter we always have the sea 

 muddy, and yellow in colour. As I go down to 

 take my bath, in the usual costume that of an 

 Arabian sheikh I meet the boys running back ; 

 they look like small Arabian sheikhs. They 

 dare not bathe, they say ; the creek is full of 

 jelly-fish. This is another unfailing result of 

 a north-east wind. I drag the young rascals 



