SUMMER DAT QUIET IN THE COUNTRY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1516, 22 January 1886, Page 3

SUMMER DAT QUIET IN THE COUNTRY.

The calm quiet that prevades all nature is part of the essential charm of a summer day in the country. The birds sing but never make noise; the water Hows, the bows sway, the grasses rustle but there is no noise in the sounds; it falls on the ear—yec, but it falls so lightly; rather it enters the ear and you hardly are aware of it But what are we to say to that fearful noise, the cornet's bray that so often marks the prr gress of a boat-load of holiday-makers? Miles before they pass, you hear it approaching, and, even when they have gone by, you hear the piercing notes that have neither melody nor meaning. Nor a whit less objectionable is that custom which many haw of singing coarse songs or even popular in reckless discord and with irreverent voices on the homeward journey. It cannot be too (often impressed on all, that most undoubtedly every high road and river way is as much one man's as another's, yet there is an unwritten law not always recognised, that though it be a man's privilege to claim the right to use such place' he yet also ought to be most careful that he does not abuse his right and become an arrant nuisance to his followman. This is forgotten so often by so many and by such diverse conditions of men that the caution is really needed. There is no need for us ourselves I to make our pleasures sadly; there should be none either for us to make others sad by our pleasures.— Leisure Howe.