30 SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



issued than the one in which he tossed and 

 prayed for the whole insect creation through 

 the livelong night. 



In the pride of my heart, I had said, as 

 I turned in on the floor about 11 p.m., 

 ' Fleas don't bite me,' but I ate my words 

 before morning, and no one of the three was 

 more delighted than myself when the strong 

 morning sun blazed in through the un- 

 curtained window and turned us all out at 

 5.30 into the delicious freshness of a morning 

 breeze off the lake, whilst all the world was 

 still in the first glow of its waking good spirits, 

 and the fizz had not yet gone off the newly 

 opened day. 



When we rise at home, as a rule birds and 

 beasts have already been up so long that, if 

 they are not half weary, the first exuberance 

 of their waking gladness has at least calmed 

 down, the flowers have lost some of their 

 freshness, and even the morning breeze is less 



