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and so do our winter stations. As to our minor 

 watering-places, their name is T^^gion. It is an 

 ago strenuoiuly bent ui)on getting amused; and 

 it will certainly get itself amused if money and 

 buildings and api)liances will liel[) it at all in that 

 matter. It will have bands and spas and/^^<'S and 

 gardens and plays and races and games and galas 

 to its heart's content. It will have fireworlvs and 

 monster meetings and centenaries and musical 

 festivals and i)rocessions and demonstrations and 

 excursions, and all the rest of it. It will run over 

 all the world in search of amusement, and, when 

 it is tired, it will come back at last to "seas and 

 skies," castles and abbeys, lanes and flowers. But, 

 let middle age preach as it will, youth will have 

 its cakes and ale to the end of the chapter. 



