146 EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 



"AN URCHIN WOULD A-WOOING Go" 



BUCKS, July 12, 1911. 



"A day or two ago I was rambling round 

 one of our meadows just before sunset after a 

 scorching day. I came upon a singular sight. 

 About a hundred yards in front of me, and 

 coming straight towards me through the long 

 grass, was what I for a moment took to be a 

 young rabbit, although its motion was certainly 

 not that of a rabbit. I stood quite still. I 

 could only see the top of its brown back, and 

 I said it must be an enormous rat. No, a rat 

 would have seen me before I saw it, and been 

 off like a shot. On it came slowly but steadily ; 

 presently I saw a quaint little nose pointed 

 upwards and sniffing around. I said to myself, 

 what on earth little creature can- it be ? I did 

 not wish I had a gun to shoot it I would not 

 have done that for the world but I did wish 

 for a ( Kodak ' to snapshoot it. 



" On and on it came to within two or three 

 yards of my feet. Then it stood, looking up 

 and taking stock of me, not showing the least 

 fear, but evidently wondering what sort of a 

 two-legged animal it was that stood in its way 



