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tarily, to lose the sense of weariness, for the woods 

 which hem us in on either side exhale an atmos- 

 phere that is delightfully cool and exhilarating. 

 The pedestrian, in vigorous health, knows full well 

 how keen is the sense of enjoyment when, in walk- 

 ing through a beautiful country through lane, 

 heath or wood no sense of fatigue, no sensation 

 which can serve to attract one's thoughts to one's 

 self interferes with that close attention which 

 the eye and the ear love to give to the sights and 

 sounds of Nature. Both senses sight and hear- 

 ing may have full employment, or the one may 

 be subordinated to the other. The sudden day 

 notes of the nightingale which sometimes seem 

 to flood the woods with delicious harmony, to 

 obliterate, almost, every other bird song and 

 command attention may instantly serve to draw 

 our sight from the most enticing scenery which 

 will be looked at, but unheedingly, whilst the ear 

 drinks in the liquid melody of the queen of song- 

 sters. Or it may be, on the other hand, that 

 to sounds which have been pleasing the ear and 

 making us indifferent to the scenery, we may 

 become suddenly deaf by the bursting on our vision 



