220 CEOFT LODGE. 



piers, charmed with its beauties, and after a 

 while growing tired of them ; reminding me of 

 a saying " that many fall in love with the dis- 

 trict, but that few marry it." The present pro- 

 prietor, however, I trust, will prove himself an 

 exception. 



AMICUS. And why not the enduring tie, 

 where there is so much and varied beauty and 

 so many facilities of living ? 



PISCATOK. Beauty that pleases the eye, and 

 even delights the mind, is not in itself all 

 sufficient, at least in scenery. Here tedium 

 is unavoidable after a while, unless a person 

 has, as the saying is, " resources in himself," 

 unless he can find himself occupation, and that 

 in good part in-door occupation, such as science 

 or literature affords. Even the mere country 

 gentlemen may weary here, the fishing is so 

 indifferent, the shooting worse, and the hunting 

 almost a farce, or a tremendous labour the 

 one to those who look on, the other to those 

 who follow on foot in a country of stone walls, 

 mountains and precipices, in which a man must 

 make his own legs his hunter. 



AMICUS. There is reason in what you say, 



