![]() ![]() ![]() He will not believe that the flavour is more delicate in the smaller dose. His heart rises against those who drink their curaçao in liqueur glasses, when he himself can swill it in a brown John. ![]() ![]() And, above all, it is here that your overwalker fails of comprehension. It is this that so few can understand they will either be always lounging or always at five miles an hour they do not play off the one against the other, prepare all day for the evening, and all evening for the next day. Whatever he does is not only a reward in itself, but will be further rewarded in the sequel and so pleasure leads on to pleasure in an endless chain. The excitement of the departure puts him in key for that of the arrival. He cannot tell whether he puts his knapsack on, or takes it off, with more delight. He who is indeed of the brotherhood does not voyage in quest of the picturesque, but of certain jolly humours-of the hope and spirit with which the march begins at morning, and the peace and spiritual repletion of the evening's rest. But landscape on a walking tour is quite accessory. There are many ways of seeing landscape quite as good and none more vivid, in spite of canting dilettantes, than from a railway train. 1 It must not be imagined that a walking tour, as some would have us fancy, is merely a better or worse way of seeing the country. ![]()
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