102 SPORT. 



the depths of the foss like the groans of imprisoned 

 demons to which a slight but increasing wind 

 stealing up the valley from the sea adds its melan- 

 choly note. My mind, already deeply depressed, 

 yields helplessly to the influence of the hour and 

 sinks to zero at once ; and despondency the hated 

 spirit descends from her " foggy cloud " and is my 

 inseparable companion all the way home. 



