Preface 



come to us or depart, rather than to follow the civil 

 calendar, which has no true application to the course 

 of Nature. 



I think that the fact of his being my son (patre 

 vagabundo filius vagabundior) should not deter me 

 from here making acknowledgment of the yeoman 

 service rendered by a very youthful colleague who 

 shares with me a pretty heavy pack when we take 

 the road together. 



JOHN MACLAIR BORASTON. 



STRETFORD, 



September, 1903. 



