ONCE UPON A TIME 151 
All this had I seen on a July day from the 
window of a plunging train on the Soo, a travel 
day when weariness was rife and care was plenti- 
ful, but a day when through the lavish kindness 
of the Chief Gardener I had been bid to walk 
at leisure through some unaccustomed paths in 
his Eden. 
