THE BILLIARD TABLE POOL. 75 



forms the background of a picture which can 

 be called up at will after any disappointing day, 

 when ones legs and back ache deliciously on 

 the old horse-hair couch of the inn parlour, and 

 the drawling songs of the haymaking yokels 

 percolate through the cracked panes of the tap 

 room door and steal across the creaky passage. 



