3 i2 SUMMER 



faced with cement. But it is doubtful whether these low- 

 lying ponds are appreciably fed by mist, or deserve the name 

 of dew-ponds at all. They have little of the antiquity and 

 mystery associated with the dew-ponds on the great crests 

 ringed with earthworks, where the plovers come to bathe in 

 the yellow summer afternoons, and the sheep follow the 

 shepherd with his crook, as in old Bible pictures. 



