CHAPTER I 

 Introductory 



IT would be delightful to write about plea- 

 sures, if by doing so one could impart them to 

 others. Many of us, if we had this gift, would 

 no doubt take the world by storm to-morrow, 

 with an account of the delights of living in 

 the country. 



Unfortunately, nothing is more difficult than to 

 convey any strong impression of pleasure which 

 has been felt within us, and probably it is only 

 some unconscious egotism which ever prompts 

 us to suppose that it might be easy. The in- 

 superable difficulty lies in the nature cf people 

 and things. We do not all care for the same 

 pleasures, and do not want to hear about those 



