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*4 ’ 1 74. Are as a half transparent blird Riddled by rays from sun behind. â€"Thomas Hardy. Poer:s Looking forward to the spring One puts up with anything. On this February day Though winds leap down the street Wintry scourgings seem but play, And these later shafts of sleet â€"Sharper pointed than the firstâ€" And these later snowsâ€"the worstâ€" At the same time reckless chautâ€" feurs who drive in the crowded streets of Moscow as if they were on country roads are being called to account, and some who were found guilty of causâ€" ing serious mishaps have been deprivâ€" ed of their licenses and sentenced to terms of imprisonment. executing perilous zigzag crossings which involve the dodging of half a dozen different vehicles. they are called) are endeavoring to perfect themselves in the art of diâ€" recting traffic. The city Soviet at one time issued a draconic order to the effect that all citizens had to walk only on the rightâ€"hand side of the street and could cross only at speciâ€" fied places, on pain of summary fines. While this ruling was allowed to fall into disuse because of the sheer imâ€" possibility of enforcing it, there is still a vigorous educational campaign to dissuade Soviet citizens from walkâ€" ing on the street pavements or from Semaphores have now been installed at many of the main crossings and the !useovite police (of militiamen, as Moscow.â€"City authorities are alâ€" most daily faced with the problem of regulating the capital‘s everâ€"increasâ€" ing street traffic. Although the numâ€" ber of vehicles is small, compared with the figures for other large capitals, more and more automobiles and trucks are honking and hooting their way through the narrow streets of the Soâ€" viet capital; and the congestion and confusion at crowded corners where automobiles, trucks, buses, street cars, horsedrawn cabs and wooden peasant carts all dispute the right of way with each other and with pedestrians are sometimes very great. Soviet Russia Faced By Traffic Problem To Scout Douglas Grantham, age 15, 13th London Troop. Saw a girl strugâ€" gling in the water of the Thames River where the current, due to recent storms, was very swift. Went to her assistance and in spite of her strugâ€" gles rescued heor. Increase of Vehicles Causes Congestion in Narrow Streets The following is a list of the awards which have recently been made and which all Lonies will agree are deâ€" serving of special mention: Silver Crosses To Scout Bert Bryan, age 12, 26th London Troop. Rescued a small boy who had fallen down a disused well. For gallant deeds where the risk is not so great, a Silver Cross with a blue ribbon is awarded, whilst those who do exceptionally well in case of emerâ€" gency, though without any great risk to themselves, receive a Gilt Cross. In other cases deserving of recognition, Letters of Commendation are issued. Lone Scouts will be very interested to know that ten awards were recentâ€" ly made to Scouts of this province for gallantry in saving life and property in many cases at very great risk. The highest award for gallantry is a bronze cross with a red ribbon. This is only given where exceptional heroâ€" ism has been shown or extraordinary risks faced. given as one of his reasons for supâ€" porting the Scout Movement by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. John H. Inskip. "Scouting taught boys to be independent, and to find their places in life, instead of drifting," he deâ€" clared. February 22nd again brought the strange coincidence of the common birthday of Lord and Lady Badenâ€" Powell, World Chiet Scout and Chief Girl Guide. Liverpool‘s Lord Mayor on Scouting That there is too much spoonâ€"feedâ€" Ing toâ€"day, and that Scouting "helps boys to fend for themselves," was Lone Scouts could very well do slmilar work and we suggest you get into touch with your local doctor and offer him your services for this purâ€" To Rover Scout Augus K. MacLeod, Scouts as mes ®rs, or other se the sick The Home Service." Lone Scouts similar work ar scouts as messengers, furnace tendâ€" e®rs, or other service in the homes of the sick The boys call this "Sickâ€" Good Turnsâ€"A New Idea A new opporturity to perform that C€aily good turn has originated in Bedâ€" ford, where it has won the praise of the community. The Scouts of the 66th Troop have developed a plan whereby they get into touch with the local physicians whereby the latter may call upon the services of the A Strange Birthday Coincidence Awards For Gallantry TA WITHTHE â€"~A y 92# Â¥ T MA TT? T ::;1 NFESC Bogâ€""I got a real kick out of kissâ€" ing Jane last night." Gogâ€""Any more than usual?" Bogâ€""Yea, the old man caught me."â€"Witt. "Good gracious, Junior, I forgot to shake the bottle before a gave you that medicine." "Don‘t worry, mummy, I‘l turn a few handsprings.‘1!â€"Chicago Surtaxes of 50 per cent. of the duty otherwise leviable were imposed as from June 20, 1930. This surtax, the Trade Commissioner reports, has been removed from various items of inâ€" terest to Canada, including wrapping paper, paper bags, strawboard, furniâ€" ture, unspecified wood manufactures, pianos, cordage, twines, and nine items of less importance. Canadian exports of electrical cookâ€" ing and heating appliances to Ausâ€" tralia were $172,251 in the year just previous to the imposition of prohibiâ€" tion, and trade fell to $60,693 during the first 12 months that the prohiblâ€" tion was in force. Exports of Canaâ€" dian confectionery to Australia for these periqods dropped from $16,558 to $1,472. Canada‘s exports of agricultural imâ€" plements to Australia during the fiscal year ended March 31, 1930, totalled $969,304; while during the year folâ€" lowing, when the prohibitions were in force, these exports dropped to $310,â€" 290. The farm implements under proâ€" hibition were cultivators, harrows, scarifiers, stumpjump plows, drills, reaper threshers and harvesters, and horseâ€"drawn hay rakes. to specially restricting nonâ€"essential imports. This import prohibition is now repealed on agricultural imple ments, electrical cooking and heating appliances, electric smoothing irons, confectionery, dry batteries and cells, barbed wite, and 23 other items of minor importance. Ottawa.â€"Several Australian import prohibitions and surtaxes imposed in 1930 will be removed. Details of the action by the Australian Government were cabled by D. H. Ross, Canadian Trade Commissioner in Australia, to the Department of Trade and Comâ€" merce This action will improve conâ€" ditions for export of certain lines of Canadian manufacture benefiting by tariff preferences under the trade agreement concluded last year boâ€" tween Canada and Australia. | The Australian prohibitions went inâ€" to force on April 4, 1930, with a view Membership in the Lone Scouts of Ontario is open to all boys of this proâ€" vince who are between 12 and 18 years inclusive who are unable to become members of a regular troop. It is deâ€" signed, particularly for Rural boys. If you would like further particulars, write to Lone Scout Department, Boy} Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2.â€""Lone E." l Canadian Trade is Benefitted By Embargo Removal | To Scout Waldemar Hill, age 16, 1st | | . | Newburgh Troop. Rescued a girl who x # % * ‘had lost her presence of mind when a she realized she was in deep water 6 i % and was in danger of drowning in the y PSE ’.\'apanee River. ' e o e â€" e e "o l Letters of Commendationâ€"4 | 3 ym mm e 0 To Scout Jack O‘Donohue, age 15, 1st | «x . + "~ ym Parklands Troop, and to Assistant TN tmaraiieo "proug i Scoutmaster Ernest F. Ward, age 18, When a guest of wind beat the 1st Parklands Troop. Scout O‘Donohue the ground the other day, two me saw a boy in difficulties in the river at able damage done to the ship an Eldorado Park, swam to his assistance a fright. and kept the boy‘s head above water| "~â€"â€" _ â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"mnaame« until A.S.M. Ward was able to reach] Famous Auto Racer the scene and la::r::e boy ashore. o ‘ TO Seek Buried Treuure It is under consideration that the‘ ‘Daytona B.e'?["h' Fla.â€"Sir Malcolm Lone Scout Department organize an-j (,.ampbell, British spc rtsmun..who has other camp during 1932 for registered | travelled faSt‘)'.' MB iand thar any Lone Scouts under the direction of| ot‘her person in history, hore‘s to officials of the Lone Scout Department. |climax a thrill ;:a‘.ked earger ?“th * Are you interested in this? It so.‘z‘amh for l?uru\l treasure in the write to headquarters and register | Fouthern ?ac[fic eapen i g your name as a prospect for camp. You The desx're 18 ont â€"£ his obses.?lons.‘ will have lots of fun, and learn a lot| The other is to ‘h.'!,r" an automobile at about Scouting, too. | a speed of 300 miles per hour. He isl Membership in the Lone Scouts of conf_ident. bo.th -goals will be reacked Ontario is open to all hove of thia nra.! during his lifetime. | Certificates of Meritâ€"2 To Scout Elmer Schlievert, age 15, 1st Galetta Troop. Heard sounds as if someone was in difficulty in the Misâ€" sissippi River, ran to the shore, saw small child struggling in the water and pulled her out. To Scout John Wodle, age 15, 1st Bridgeburg Troop. Ran into house where fire had started from a pan of grease, took the burning pan, rushed through the back kitchen, and got it into the open before much damage had been done. To Scout William Murrall, age 1%, 1st Parklands Troop. Jumped off the breakwater at the mouth of the Etobiâ€" coke River and rescued a young girl who had fallen in. To Scout William Labute, age 17, 19th Border Cities Troop. Rescued a boy who had gone beyond his depth in the Detroit River at Walkerville. age 18, 1st Kincardine Crew.. Rescued three boys from drowning in the Harâ€" bour Channel at Kincardine. Two of the boys had gone to the rescue of a third, but were unequal to the task. The alarm reached MacLeod while he was several hundred yards away and his timely action undoubtedly preventâ€" ed a tragedy. ‘ Gilt Crossesâ€"3 The love of Heaven makes one heayâ€" i,'o'ei,é'oé enly. gutarwesas. At the age of nine, May Goodwin, a little English girl living in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris, has written a neat and accurate letter in shorthand to a shortâ€" hand enthusiast. He says it took his litâ€" tle daughter eight months to learn to write in this way and during this time she did not interrupt her school work in any way. We have become quite accustom'e:l to the various child musician marvels and mathematical wizards of tender years, but now we have something new. R The temperament that drives Sir Malcolm seeking new records and new thrills already has endangered his life a dozen times. 9â€"yr.â€"old English Child But just as important to Sir Malâ€" colm as his racing aspirations, is the treasure hunt on picturesque Cocos Island. He will seek the treasure of Lima, hidden by pirates 110 years a~o. When a guest of wind beat the stern fin of the dirigible Akron to the ground the other day, two men were painfully injured, considerâ€" able damage done to the ship and five congressmen passengers got a fright. Shorthand Prodigy Strong Wincs Daniage Akron Forerunner of Spring _ _ Australia‘s Population | _ Camberra, Australiaâ€"The populaâ€" , tion of Australia on June 30, 1931, was ; 6,500,586, excluding fullâ€"blooded aborâ€" :iginals, according to Prof. L. F. Gibâ€" lin, commonwealth statistician. â€" The ‘increase of population for the year | was 61,538. For the decade 1921-1‘ | 1931 there had been an increase of 1,004,802, an average annual gain of slightly under 2 per cent. | And if as action, skating is thus ; supreme, so is it also a spectacle. | Here are posesâ€"no, not that, not the , frozen fixity of the studio, but the free Iposes that are possible to a body at once inflight and at rest. They are so fixed that the eye can follow and comprehend, yet with a slow play and change. And to enrich this change and play there is the counterpoint of draperies. It echoes the movements of the limbs, with the repetitions of a canon, or with other freaks of fugal variation. It is not now the perking and twitching of the stuff, as in walkâ€" ing or dancing; it is a lingering wave of the last impulsion, resolving itself gently into the next. If artists were not the prisoners of custom, the edge of the rink would be encircled by sculptors modelling those forms in snow.â€"From "Confessions of a Keepâ€" er," by D. S. MacColl. Viewing Skaters On ‘a waterlogged margin of the habitable globe, in the early afterâ€" noon of time, our poor legs and feet, so long the tools of a mistaken conver,â€" tion, discovered their use. It is but a convention still, an abstraction of free movement in the flat, but in the perfect flat. . . . 1t i~nts are shown select‘n & ciarters. Teach selfâ€"denial, and make its pracâ€" {ice pleasurable, and you will create {or the world a destiny more sublime ‘han ever issus‘ ~~~~ ‘*> #pg‘n of the wildest dream s 0‘ ~>r Seott. The population of ll?aia has inâ€" creased about 19 per cont. since 1921 ind is now 852,0986,876, nearly three imes that of the United States, acâ€" cording to preliminary returns of a reâ€" ‘ent census. Of this number, 181,921,â€" 14 are males and 171,064,962 females, ‘he Hindus number 238,330,912, or 73 »er cent. of the total, the Moslems 11. The estimated gain in revenue from September, 1931, to December, 1931, inâ€" clusive, is $17,500 on these fiction pubâ€" lications. The import duties on United States publications entering Canada from Sept 1, 1931, to Jan. 31, 1932, was $206,806.72. India‘s Vast Population _____Shows a Big Increase Ottawa.â€"Fortyâ€"seven fiction publicaâ€" tions formerly printed in the United States are now being printed, for their Canadian distribution, in Canada, acâ€" cording to a statement made by C. H. Cahan, Secretary of State, in the House of Commons, last week. O emiPeeiiapnvliaiideniic P64 1208 mie no son t A . i 13,928, the Silkhs 4,306,442, and the hristians 5,961,794; Fortyâ€"seven U.S. Periodicals _ _Now Published in Canada Tokyo.â€"Despite the boycott on J apâ€" anese goods in China, Japanese transâ€" lations of standard occidental works still find a great sale in the Chinese market. The written language of Japan is so similar to that of China that most educated Chinese can read it with no difficulty, and these Chinese look to Tokyo for nearly all the transâ€" lations they get of foreign books. The Japanese are indefatigable translators and American and Euroâ€" pean books are translated by the thouâ€" sands yearly. f Chinese Boycott Excludes 4 Books from Japan During the last two years 45,000 motorcars have been transported across by the railway ferries. Motorâ€" cars will be taxed moderately for crossing the bridge. This bridge will dispense with the railway ferry service across this waterway on Denmark‘s main route to the continent. It will be 8,270 meters long and will be, it is claimed, the lengest in Europe. The cost is calcuâ€" lated at 33,600,000 kroner or 68,â€" 500,000. Copenhagen.â€"A bill empowering the building of a railway and vehicuâ€" lar traffic bridge across the Storâ€" strom, between Sealand and Falstar, has been brought forward by the Minâ€" ister for Traffic, M. Frus Skotte. time, as they could not in existing conâ€" ditions find a subsistence in agriculâ€" ture or industry. But when times get better again, as they must do, Canada will have to take steps to increase her population. When we are prosperous once more, the introduction of immi: grants in sufficient numbers and of a suitable kind will be essential to the preservation of our country, $8,500,00 Bridge Proposed Linking Denmarkâ€"Continent E NOE Clb Cidle scmmibnntc l will only count in future for her numâ€" bers on the slow natural growth of her population. The exclusion of imâ€" migrants is imperative at the presont L Wwer AsidP detsicints uesd d s the economic crisis, has hermetically sealed her doors to immigration, will adhere indefinitely to this policy and will only count in fntnra faw Lal‘ .. . La Patrie Montreal, (Ind.) :; Hon. W. A. Gordon, temporary Minister of Colonization and Immigration, has deâ€" molished the impression held by some that Canada, which, in consequence of e ME * We Auix Night has closed in before we pass the second of the Mirafiores locks, and drop to sea level: a perfectly clear greenishâ€"indigo night with a full moon overhead: As I look back over the length of the ship, the sight is extraâ€" ordinarily fairylike, fantastic, and unâ€" real. | In reality, of course, the water | rushing in from culverts rises, taking j us with it. But that is not in the least | what it seems like, Rather, the walls | of the lock, the top of which has been ; on a level with the crow‘s nest, appear 'to sink very slowly down and down, ; drawn under the water by some force 5 which leaves us high on a level with | the top of it. _ It seems as though a lifetime had passed in this amazing process, while the barometer in the captain‘s cabin sinks benath one‘s eyes, with a heavier weight of air. And yet, from the moment the great steel gates close behind us, to th moment the second pair above opens to admit us, is no more than thirty minutes in all. Not thesleast surprising part of the whole affair is the fact that no one appears to be doing anything whatever, apart from the pilot, who walks up and down the topmost bridge, barking out an ocâ€" casional order, ‘ | We pass into the lock through an Iimmenle gateway, from which steel , gates have rolled silently back into the | side of the canal; the gates close, and ‘an amazing process begins. Â¥For those who have experienced a passage through the gigantic locks of the Panama Canal the following exâ€" cerpt from Elinor Mordaunt‘s "The Venture Book" will recall vividly their own sensation. She writes: Immigration in the Future Passing Through the Panama Canal Beyoglu, Turk.â€"The Turkish Govâ€" ernment has signed a contract with the Curtissâ€"Wright interests for estabâ€" lishment of commercial air lHnes conâ€" necting principal Anatolian cities. A national society will be establishâ€" ced for the purpose. American experts have arrived in Turkey to draw up plans. It is an account of the discovery of stainless stee!, and has been given by Harry Brearley, the discoverer of that material,. It is in a sealed envelope, which is not to be opened until the Cutle:‘s Feast of 1960. Mr. Barclay has also presented to the company the first table knife blade made of stainless steel. ‘ London.â€"A document of unusual inâ€" terest has come into the posséssion of the Cutlers Compay of Sheffield, with the stipulation that it is not to be read for nearly thirty years. duced an amendment to the Railway Municipal Act which would vest in the â€" Ontario Mumnicipal Board all powers to control and direct motor transportation systems in the proâ€" vince. The measure does not interâ€" fere with municipal authority within their boundaries. The Mortgage Reliet Measure was advanced to the Committee stage and it is hoped that the act will be enâ€" forced within the next two weeks and will probably date back to February 2nd. Es an e e eeeay Ee J. MacArthur, Northumberland; J. F. Sangster, Glengarry; T. A. Murray, Renfrew North; and R. A. Baxter, South Oxford. _ Premier Henry moved an amendâ€" ment to that introduced by W. E. N. Sinclair, Opposition Leader, which placed the Liberals in a position of voting ‘for" or "against" Hydro. _ It pledges the Legislature anew to Hydro and to the principle of service at cost, also pledges support to the efficient service rendered by the Commission, â€" Ten speakers took part in the deâ€" bate on the Speech from the Throne, adding to the discussion on Hydro. They were: Wilfria Heighington, Torâ€" ontoâ€"St. David‘s; Austin Smith, Essex; | W. W. Staples, South Victoria; Fred| Premier Henry pointed out, as a glaring instance of misleading stateâ€" ments, that the pamphlet referred to had said that the cost of the Chippewa development was one hundred and fifty million. _ "Government figures show," said Mr. Henry, ‘that the cost was only seventyâ€"six million." i The outstanding event of the Legisâ€" |lature last week was the denunciation l‘ot M. F. Hepburn, Provincial Liberal Leader, by Premier George 8. Henry, "This was caused," the Premier said, "through Mr. Hepburn‘s attacks on the Ontario Hydro Power Commission and its administration, and the.Premier held that Mr. Hepburn founded his argument upon an antiâ€"public ownerâ€" ship sheet published in Chicn.go."‘ Reading from this sheet Mr. Henry‘ showed that the Hepburn language coincided directly with the material contained in the Chicago publication, which is termed "For the Use of Disinâ€" terested Citizens, Taxpayers and Other Organizations believing in the proficiency of private ownership and opposed to public ownership." Arthur Ellis, 7South Ottawa, intro l Take it all in all, the whole effect of the Canal Zone is theatrical. â€" The ‘islands are not islands at all, but the | tops of mountains pushing up through the water; the mountains themselves are cut to pattern, placed just so; the ‘ green of the vegetation is more than ‘a trifle overdone, as are the exaggerâ€" ; ated madder and vermilion of the‘ cliffs. The machinery of the gigantic transformation scene left lying about.1 with the pathetic remains of the heroic failure of Lesseps, suggests the ldea‘ that it has all been Lcought there by | trolleys, small erough because of thel’ primal flatness; that the valleys which‘ open between the mountains are more ; wings leading to the greenâ€"room, with nothing whatever at the back of them. We have the feeling that it all must come to an end when the last of the lights go out, and the electrician, forâ€" ‘saking his engines, goes home to supâ€" per and bed, leaving the night watchâ€" man seated on a little campâ€"stool in the center of this vast stage."â€"Elinorl Mordaunt, in "The Venture Book." | ; cake, the tall white concrete pillars | with their lights, clusters of five bunâ€" _ dred wax bulbs under concrete shades, like candles set above them. ‘The litâ€" ;tlo engines with their bright crimson lamps add u still more fantastic note ‘ol decoration to the scene. It is an appropriate finish to the transit through an isthmus in itself fantastic beyond all words, worked to their own ‘ends by men who, as it seems, could scarcely have realized the magnitude . of their own powers, | Backed with highâ€"peaked mountains, the causeways to the locks, shortened and broadened by perspective, show like the top of an immense Christmas o Link Main Cities TZ" meu listened to the ‘10“'ing ':l'&- of the former Triumvir of Romeâ€" from under the drawing room table! Another memory of childhood days is of ‘"‘the lionâ€"headed Sir James Y, Simpson, an old man, sitting in his armâ€"chair by the fireside in his house in Queen Street, I can hear his words to me: ‘Ye‘ll always remember, my d.r.flltyo‘n-go. the knoe of the inventor of chloroform." o. lc2,_, _ t TV smusnl; a little deprecatory. Browning watched for a minute or two, then slipped out of the room and came back putting on his own scarlet gown of the Oxford D.C.L. ‘I have a gown too!‘ he said lightly, showing himself off," Twenty years earlier Miss Masson, then a small child, had seen Mazzini lnduhd_um to the glowino ward. ECCCCCCT HmEARETET 4 NC evening before the ceremony Countess Saffi brought her husband down in the beautiful academis robes"of Bologna University in which he was to appear next day: "He was made to stand in the midâ€" die of the room, under the lights, as she displayed him to usâ€"looking stately, indeed; gravely amused; a little deprecatory. Browning watched Tor a milnithn JA $u.. C3 __ Oe Pmb ed into the study';f- Pâ€"r"of';:s;: ing Jenkin, who was their h. producer of the play, Afteru:r:h-b: admitted that the Professor had given TY PWLgE TT e in tacsAciscte Eue "The audience, scarcely recoversd from the tragic scene on which the curtain had fallen, gave one gasp of amazement, and then broke into a roar of applause." The two luckless actors leaped to their feet, only to soe the ourtain £u1 arms, performed a rapid warâ€"dance, and then flung themselves on to oppoâ€" site ends of a couch at the back of the stage, with their fect mecting in a kind of triumphal arch in the centre. Louis Stevenson, who had been offéâ€" ciating at the curtain, took one ‘ook at them. He touched a sprirz, and up went the curtain again. "In a momentary reaciion after so much unrelieved tragedy, these two, oblivious of their classic draperies, threw themsolves in one another‘s STEVENSON‘S LITTLE JOKE. R, L. S. was always to the fore when amature theatricals were being arranged, sometimes as actor, someâ€" times as stage manager. During one of their playsâ€"a Greek tragedyâ€"the curtain had fallen on a powerful and moving scene and the stage was left in the possession of two of the young actors, one being Miss Masson‘s broâ€" fell to disputing with a bigger and altogether more muscular member of the company as to which of the two could claim to have the larger girth of calf. Louis Stevenson was under the impression his own was the largâ€" er; and so in earnest was he, and se anxious to prove his case, that he actually fetched an inchâ€"tape, and inveigled his muscular friend into kneeling on the drawing room carpet, while each, with much solemnity, measured the other‘s calf!" Seas. She remembers him as a slight boyish figure, with a very pale face and luminous eyesâ€"a brilliart talkor and ready to enter into any fun that In Edinburgh Miss Masson often used to see Robert Louise Stevenson, who had not yet left for the South He loved the Masson children, and if he found them playThg with their "arirâ€"balls" (good Victorian word!) or with battledores and shuttlecocks, he would join "quite pleasantly" in the game. But woe betide anyone whe asked in his presence for "halfâ€"aâ€"cup more tea." It would be a sure signal for a brilliant Spencerian dissertation on accuracy of expression ; on the folly of speaking of "halfâ€"a<cup" when one meant a whole cup half full! " Somehow one cannot imagine #: | bert Spenger taking part in a _ â€"not even a superior Victorian picmic, .wi&.wfibhbldofi.knimn‘ forks, and cupâ€"custard sprinkled with . nutmetg! But it seems that he did. _ Miss Flora Masson, daughter of Daâ€" vid Masson, the famous Victorian journalist and biographer, recalls one special occasion when "Mr. Spencet ‘ the Philosopher" was brought along t« ‘join a family picnic under the pine: ‘ of Hampstead Heath. She remembers | him, she tells us in "Victorians AL.* "in al fresco mood, sitting with a plate ‘ on his knees, among the sand and the "pine-needles, eating cold lamb with C c20d emcnentne + Anivennith wfl the often from the hands of one of our very young and pretty au_n_t_s:" C _ Bu; this is not all; sometimes, tos, the Philosopher could be seen playing croquet in the garden of the Massons‘ house: ures of a meal eaten outâ€"ofâ€"doors in summer were of real assistance to the digestion. We children, listeningâ€" and eating gooseberry puffsâ€"thought there was no doubt about it!" 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