148 A YEAR WITH NATURE. 



and, then again, to quote S. Reynolds Hole : " The bees were 

 working in and out of their hives, like busy men in the City, 

 and butterflies were flirting among the flowers, like idle men 

 in the Park." 



England may well be proud of sermon-writers such as those 

 whose sweet and delightful word-pictures I have just quoted. 



