CHAPTEE XXIY. 



DAT DBEAMS FOOD FOB HORSES IN TRAINING HAY, CORN 



BLADES, STRAW, OATS, COBN, LINSEED-MEAL, OAT-MEAL, 



SAGO, GEEEN FOOD, ETC. TIME OF FEEDING. 



PUPIL. I will have to find amusement in following the 

 vagaries of my imagination, when deprived of your com- 

 pany while smoking after dinner. Whether the habit of 

 day dreaming when the pipe is lit, which my forest life 

 has fostered, will ever be broken, I cannot imagine. It is 

 certain that I cannot read when I am thus engaged. If I 

 attempt to find instruction or amusement in books, I am 

 unsuccessful. The book will drop, and I am transported 

 to other times, and far-away places, or am reveling in 

 scenes that can never be expected to occur. Conversation 

 lispels the phantasies of the brain, and absolves me from 

 Jus folly when in company. Should I endeavor to study, 

 when alone, the task is as futile as reading. I am soon 

 lost in reveries, and I have given up all hopes of saving 

 the time occupied in solitary smoking. The half hour thus 

 spent, or thrown away, has become a luxury which I would 

 be loth to part with, if for nothing more than that it is 

 a prolongation of the happy period, akin to the bright 

 days of youth, when the fancy pictured glowing futurities, 

 of which the judgment yet did not show the fallacy. 



My countrymen have been characterized as a painstak- 

 ing, demure, stubborn sort of people, who found in every- 

 day reality, a life more pleasing than any efforts of the 

 imagination could afford. I am satisfied they are wronged 



