Ideal Refreshment.
I remember, one hot summer afternoon, how (diaries Kingsley ami my father, with my mother and Mrs Kingsley, sat out on the lawn and talked; and we heard shouts of laughter from the group. I did not know then, but 1 know now, that someone had asked what was the pleasantest way of spending a day, and Low Kingsley hail looked up, and said with his great stammer, "Why, to lie on y<uir I>-b. like a lizard in the sun, and to t'.iut aiiout nothing.” From "The Leaves of the Tree/’ in the “Cornhill Magazine,” for August.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 19, 8 May 1912, Page 54
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99Ideal Refreshment. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 19, 8 May 1912, Page 54
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