Save for a late excursion to Harrow, and a day or two on the banks of the Thames this summer, rural images were fast fading from my mind, and by the wise provision of the Regent all that was countrified in the parks is all but obliterated.

Early in 1814 the London parks were thrown open to the public, with fireworks, booths, illuminations, etc., in celebration of the peace between France and England, it was two or three years before they recovered their usual verdure.

" "It's becoming," said Miss Parks, "and that's better than dignity.

"Or imperious enough," said Clarissa Parks.

" "Somebody else had the hardest of it," said Miss Parks; "that's a story for us girls.

This was Miss Parks.

"Oh, nothing," answered Miss Parks.

A whisper from Miss Parks reached her: "Isn't it a poky subject?

Is Clarissa Parks more loved than any one in your class?" "Oh, no.

The knowledge which is brought out to insult me, may accidentally improve me; and in the rich man's houses and pictures,his parks and gardens, I have a temporary usufruct at least.

Since the National Parks and military reservations are already game refuges, it was of importance that I should see the Mt. Whitney Military Reservation, and for this purpose I crossed the Sierra Reserve, through broad tracts suitable for Game Refuges, thus acquiring familiarity with a large and most interesting section of forest country.

The royal palace glistened with plates of gold, and the parks and gardens were watered from immense reservoirs.

Then he leaves the fields, parks, and rivers, to fly away to the nesting-place.

There are even bigger parks in England than Craythew, but there is none more beautiful, none richer in all sweet and good things that live, none more musical with song of birds, not one that more deeply breathes the world's oldest poetry.

You can find a telephone in every shop and in almost every house, and in the parks and on the street corners on lamp posts are little booths similar to those used for police boxes in the cities of the United States.

A number of fine restaurants are maintained in the parks, where people can get a good dinner and spend the evening under the cool foliage, listening to an orchestral concert or a band.

No grand parks, fine gardens, or ornamented villas; but spacious clumsy chateaux, surrounded with farm offices and cottages for the labourers.

Parks, groves, copses, and hedge-row trees are interspersed very happily, and meadow, pasture, and grain-fields seen through them, with villages, hamlets, farm-houses, and isolated cottages, make up a landscape that grows more and more interesting as you contemplate it.

I was glad to see such justice done to a tree in the noblest parks in England, which with us has been treated with such disdain and contumely.

With palatial mansions, parks, and farms great and small, scattered through several counties, he is the greatest radical in England.

If England has no grand National Gallery like the French Louvre, she has works of art that would fill fifty Louvres, collected and treasured in these quiet private halls, embosomed in green parks and plantations, from one end of the land to the other.

He also counts in his possessions old abbeys, baronial halls, parks and towns that once were walled, and still have streets called after their gates.

Mansions and parks of the gentry, hill, valley, wheat-fields, meadows of the most vivid green; crops luxuriant in most picturesque alternations; in a word, the whole a vista of the richest agricultural scenery.

The declining sun was flooding the great basin with the day's last, best smile, filling it to the golden rim of the horizon with a soft light in which lay a landscape of thirty miles' depth, embracing full fifty villages and hamlets, parks, plantations and groves, all looking "like emeralds chased in gold."

From Hexham I faced northward and followed the North Tyne up through a very picturesque and romantic valley, thickly wooded and studded with baronial mansions, parks, castles and residences of gentry, with comfortable farm-houses looking sunny and cheerful on the green hill slopes and on the quiet banks of the river.