HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE. ii 



and through the copses. There is a solidity in his very 

 footstep, and he stands like an oak. He meets your eye 



THE KEEPER. 



full and unshirkingly, yet without insolence ; not as the 

 labourers do, who either stare with sullen ill-will or look 

 on the earth. In brief, freedom and constant contact with 



