CHAPTER III. 



SPRING AND SUMMER RAMBLES. 

 August "Lztfty 1893. 



Worthing Over the Downs to Chanctonbury Ring Snakes 

 and adders Best cure for adder's bite Drive through Arundel 

 Park First cuckoo and nightingales Shanklin Old Roman 

 villa Alum Bay Two cuckoos Martin caught by "barbed 

 betrayer " Three playful stoats The Lugg Lovely scenery 

 Remarkable rainbow The Teme Continued drought. 



ITH every desire to maintain my long- 

 established character as a steady-going 

 business man, I am bound to confess, and 

 I do so with some compunction, that of 

 late I have done much that is not quite consistent 

 with that respectable character. 



I have been a wanderer from my stool and my 

 desk ; my office has been too frequently deserted. I 

 must see to it, that I do not set too lax an example to 

 my young confreres. I find that I am now looked 

 upon by them as one of the ancients ; they urge me to 

 think of my precious health, and beg me to go away 

 into the country for a change of air. On some such 



