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always pleased those who listened to him so 

 intently. Time and place have much to do 

 with the fitness of things. The wild scream of 

 the curlew would be sadly out of place in the 

 woodlands ; but on the beach, with the lap of 

 the tide for accompaniment, it is in thorough 

 harmony. 



Sometimes when shadows pass, in ever-vary- 

 ing fashion, in the moonlight, we think of those 

 who have passed away from us like shadows, 

 and it seems almost yesterday that we hailed 

 each other on the foreshore and by the tide. 



The moon is shining bright and clear ; dark 

 masses of cloud roll up from the west, but they 

 have not yet got high enough to pass in front 

 of her. What a glorious sight old Holmbury 

 is by moonlight, with vast portions of the weald 

 below in deep shadow ! Who could do full 

 justice to its beauties, the fir woods, and the 

 tracts of heather ? Glade after glade shows, as 

 you wander along over the soft green turf, lit 

 up by the light of the moon. There is colour 

 here, even by moonlight ; subdued in tone, but 

 still colour. The fir woods are deep purple- 

 grey. As to the heather, it looks like a vast 

 series of carpets spread out in all directions 

 the deepest madder-brown heightened by the 



