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idleness is merely a change from mental to physical 

 employment. 



The wild walk beyond the sun garden offered the 

 greatest possibilities, and it is chiefly there that he 

 has spent his strength, sometimes varying this work 

 by training our new horse in side-saddle docility. 

 This penchant of Evan for horse training was the 

 primary cause of depriving the Church of his ser- 

 vices. In his youth, when on a probationary visit 

 to his uncle, the Dean, he had escaped daily to a 

 nearby race course, and there ingratiated himself so 

 thoroughly with the stable men that he was allowed 

 to exercise an especially cantankerous mare. He was 

 thus surprised by His Reverence when handling a 

 mount in an exceedingly scientific and jockey fied 

 manner, and sent home in disgrace. 



The wild walk born of the cowpath is either 

 arched by trees or screened by bushes for the greater 

 part of its length. In one place, however, for a space 

 of some twenty yards it crosses the open field, giving 

 a view of cultivated farmland below that mars the 

 effect of wildness and seclusion. 



To overcome this defect, Evan, with Bertie's aid in 

 post setting, has made the framework of a sort of 

 arbour that screens the walk completely. It is not 

 of set and formal lattice work like the old rose 



