CHAPTER V 



LOLLING AND LOAFING 



" How doth the man of common sense improve each 



shining hour. 

 By doing nothing all the day with all his well-known 



power. 

 How he delights to dream and muse, how well he likes 



to laze, 

 To loll and loaf, to wink and blink, through sultry summer 



days!" 



Thursday \ August 



! MOTHER delightful day, and we 

 made the best of it. Fishing in a 

 punt is a pleasant diversion, but it 

 can hardly be called the acme of 

 enjoyment, although the Major seems to regard 

 it as, next to salmon or dry-fly fishing, the most 

 pleasurable employment of well-earned leisure. 

 As there is no dry-fly fishing to be had in this 

 immediate neighbourhood, it is no easy matter 

 to get him away from his punt. The weather 

 being as charming and enticing as weather could 



