IN SUMMER HEAT. 55 



CHAPTER V. 



IN SUMMER HEAT. 



The spring and early summer of the year 1893 

 will be long remembered as an exceptionally dry 

 season. Four months of uninterrupted sunshine we 

 had in the neighbourhood of the Surrey Hills. How 

 hot that weather was those only who have had to 

 be out in it, busy at their various avocations from 

 sunrise to sunset, can tell. It may interest some 

 if I give a few notes made here and there, as I 

 wandered to and fro, all connected more or less 

 with the recent dry, hot spell of almost tropical 

 weather. 



Now and again I have heard some amusing 

 squabbles concerning the dryness of the season. 

 " Ah well, you ken jist say what you likes, Master 



