RAMBLES OF A DOMINIE 



STORT 



" Holding the cunning-warded keys 

 To all the woodcraft mysteries ; 

 Himself to Nature's heart so near 

 That all her voices in his ear 

 Of bird or beast had meanings clear." 



WHITTIEE. 



THE expression " Eyes and No Eyes " has passed into a 

 proverb. It is a phrase used probably by thousands 

 who never read the original story perhaps never even 

 saw the "Evenings at Home," a book that made its 

 mark a century ago, a book with which at least our 

 fathers were familiar ; though there are many who have 

 at least a general idea of it, and not a few who well 

 remember how the two schoolboys spent their holiday. 

 How they set off together, but as one of them " lagged 

 behind in the lane," the other went on without him; 

 then how the first came in complaining of the dulness of 

 his walk and the tediousness of his companion ; regretted 

 the absence of people, and had "rather by half have 

 gone along the turnpike road ; " and then how the other 



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