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young man who has had no substitute for such 

 amusements -will cut but a sorry figure in Aus- 

 traha, Canada, or India ; and, if he stays at home, 

 will spend many a pound in doctors' bills, Avhich 

 could have been better employed elsewhere. 

 " Taking a walk " — as one would take a pill 

 or a draught — seems likely soon to become the 

 only form of out-door existence possible for us 

 of the British Isles. But a walk without an 

 object, unless in the most lovely and novel of 

 scenery, is a poor exercise, and as a recreation 

 utterly nil. We never knew two young lads go 

 out for a "constitutional," who did not, if they 

 Avere commonplace youths, gossip the whole way 

 about things better left unspoken ; or, if they were 

 clever ones, fall on arguing and brainsbeating on 

 politics or metaphysics from the moment they left 

 the door, and return with their wits even more 

 heated and tired than they were when they set 

 out. We cannot help fancying that Milton made 

 a mistake in a certain celebrated passage ; and 

 that it was not " sitting on a hill apart," but 

 tramping four miles out and four miles in along a 

 turnpike-road, that his hapless spirits discoursed 



" Of fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute, 

 And found no end, in wandering mazes lost." 



