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exhilaration in so simple and natural a pastime. 

 You are eligible to any good fortune when you are 

 in the condition to enjoy a walk. When the air 

 and water tastes sweet to you, how much else will 

 taste sweet! When the exercise of your limbs 

 affords you pleasure, and the play of your senses 

 upon the various objects and shows of nature quick- 

 ens and stimulates your spirit, your relation to the 

 world and to yourself is what it should be, — simple 

 and direct and wholesome. The mood in which 

 you set out on a spring or autumn ramble or a 

 sturdy winter walk, and your greedy feet have to 

 be restrained from devouring the distances too fast, 

 is the mood in which your best thoughts and im- 

 pulses come to you, or in which you might embark 

 upon any noble and heroic enterprise. Life is 

 sweet in such moods, the universe is complete, and 

 there is no failure or imperfection anywhere. 



