UP IN THE MOENING. 
knees on the door-steps. He looks curiously, and 
thinks, surely they might have attended to their re- 
ligious services, before leaving their rooms, or is this 
some new custom or, — “ they are only scrubbing and 
cleaning the door steps.’’ But, if he looks curiously 
at them, so also do they at him. Perhaps they are 
thinking : “ Here ’s a queer man, been up all night, 
been keeping it up with ‘ We won’t go home till 
morning,’ probably not quite sober, hardly safe to 
look at him. Going home to bed at this time in the 
morning !” Then they will rise, go inside the door, 
leavinu' it just chinked, and through the chink, a 
nose and two eyes may be seen peering at our friend, 
until he turns the corner, and is lost to sight. He 
leaves the town, and takes a turn into the country, 
where all is equally still and quiet. A painful feel- 
ing of depression comes over him, and he feels any- 
thing but refreshed and invigorated by his morning 
walk, and makes up his mind to give it up. On his 
return he meets a few ploughman and carters going 
out lazily to commence the labours of the day, who 
stare at him, as if there was a price set on his head, 
and they would like to catch him ; gangs bf women 
just commenced to work in the fields rest on their 
hoes as he passes, and give him a good look, then 
they all commence to talk, still looking at him. What 
can they be saying? There is nothing odd in a gen- 
tleman walking along the public road. Yes there is, 
at that time in the morning, it is not “the custom 
of the country.” We need hardly remark, our friend 
returns, not in the best of humour, and anything but 
refr^^shed with his morning walk. He had gone out 
without his customary coffee and toast, had been 
smoking on an empty stomach, and had no appetite 
for breakfast. He is fain to give up these morning 
walks as the worst of two evils : if he can’t lie in 
bed, or sleep, better keep in the house, and employ him- 
self in reading or writing, until respectable people are 
astir, although it did seem a puzzle why respectable people 
should judge it expedient to sit up at night, and burn 
coals, gas, or lamps, with all their doors and windows 
barred and bolted, and lie in bed in the early and 
even late morning, or forenoon, in good daylight ! 
Gur friend is, however, told that this sort of life is 
ciiieiiy confined to towns, and their vicinity, and that 
if he took a trip into the country districts he would 
find matters different, and more in accordance with 
his former mode of life. Acting upon this hint, he 
packs up, and takes his departure per train for some 
distant country station, bent on having a ramble 
amongst the woods, hills and lakes. In due course 
of the train puts him down at & remote country 
