26 EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 



had passed without seeing them some superb 

 views, embracing many counties, and also 

 that our path had led us in many places 

 along the very verge of deep precipices, 

 down which, but for the care of our driver, 

 we might at any moment have been dashed. 

 As the shades of evening closed o'er us, and 

 the stars came out, the scene around us of 

 clear-cut mountain ridges, of peeps now and 

 then into far-off counties beyond, the mountain 

 sheep bleating, occasional neighing of forest 

 ponies, all made for peace and quiet > only 

 disturbed by the rough jolting of our two-horse 

 chaise. 



