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CHAPTER V. 



PAPAVER RHOEAS. 



BRANTWOOD./tt/f llth, 1875. 



i. f~~* HANGING to take up yesterday a favourite 

 ^"^ old book, Mavor's British Tourists, (London, 

 1798,) I found in its fourth volume a delightful diary 

 of a journal 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 

 England : — 



" 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 ; 



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