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I have been wandering about to-day in an apparently ais" Our horror of shiftlessness, and our realization of the responsibilities of life, and of the i up for us, or perhaps "growing up" for us, like Dick Swiviller's future mate, is expressed in the fact that if we take an hour's leisure, anywhere betwixt sunrise and sunset, we feel under bonds to explain the matter not only to our own souls, but also to those other souls who live adjacent, and take an everlasting interest in ours

Consequently, I told , and that I had best "go easy for a spell" After which concession to hbors; to call ize to them, but to solicit their co to walk feebly as long as I was in sight

I didn't go down to the beach, but plunged into the cool, co heart of a ravine; fathohtful seclusion, and ca October woods

Ill? I never felt better in h my veins, and painted a warm tint in my cheeks At that moht of her being; in a sort of tropical luxuriance, like a beautiful woman at the very summit of maturity and perfection

I put out my hands toward a clump of sumach--I was not cold, but its brilliant war fire It per

There had been rain, and then warht all the pris theality The birds bent over the swaying daisies, and sang soft love-notes into their great, dark eyes, while I looked on in an ecstasy of wonder and delight--the gold of the daisies, the gold of the sunlight, and the glow inin a way all one--part and parcel of the lorious world, and it is glorious to live therein The very air aboutin, seemed to palpitate color and brilliant beauty

I talked to Duke about it, and he looked around him with a certain air of admiration depicted on his noble, fond old face Fanchon was frivolous, as usual, and wanted to be running giddily about, hunting rabbits and the like; but I made her sit beside me, for it seemed a desecration every tiht save the dropping of a ripened nut, or the whirr of a ho bird