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SATURDAY, JUNE 10. 1922
Berkhampstead is a busy shoes. Fair she was, with golden hair | We camped on the Cambridge road... looking town, of good neatly coiled, and perfect features.just in time to get all gear undercover appearance, and very wide On the greensward by the road she before a tremendous thunderstorm streets but we stopped only saw a pair of clumpy, dusty boots, a BEAK. long enough to bay bread, reeking pipe, and a set of torpedo burst. The Duchess was frightened, cheese, butter, tomatoes, chin-furs, all pointing to "set fair.” so load, so near, the thunder seemed. milk &e. We like not towns School Then she saw they were essential! A heavy rain was followed by a smart children in hundreds, walking two portions of a man," lying flat on his shower of remarkably big hailstones. I sad two, punctuated by teachers, tom-on the convaxest part provision merchant if there was any enamelled pint mug, a tom tobacco let the rain wash em stracted our notice. We asked the of him. thing special on."
pouch, a saucer with milk in it, and oze bailstone hit my big toe so No, he said, "they're going to a tin battle, the remains of severely that I felt the pain of it for church".
loaf, and a curious looking but on
an hour after. He said it, as if it is quite the thing wheels. The man was attired in a
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like that. Thinka I, no man's going to me from arrest. I filled my kettle- play a mag's game like that 'cept for and can at the pomp in the old Toll-
bet or something."
booth or Tithebarn, and passed That's what I got for my deceitini
through in safety. The Duchess had pretence of being a sportsman. Served me quite right, didn't it? been complaining bitterly about this There was a cornfield with about an innovation of starting without break acre or so of poppies sold, anrelieved fast, so as soon as we got into green by a hint of wheat. Beyond it a parts again, we stopped and had it beechwood for background. The eye I also washed a shirt and some socks, seemed unlikely ever to have enough of that scarlet. We palled into a and bang 'em up in the sun. already gateway recess, to sit and smoke and powerful at 7.30 am. This was on behold it
the main road to Aylesbury. Soon This,
in We said
cur diary, is Gorgeousness. Around and about we turned off into a narrow lane, as ancient beeches, their smooth bark shaded by great trees, and climbed to for school children to attend church pair of very shabby pants, and a grey at 9 15 cn a Monday morning, so faunel shirt, open at the thrust, and old gold in colour, in the dim lights plateau leading down to Cheshunt we abandoned the investigation with sleeves folded above the elbow (something like theee you get in ■ that filters through their stooping At the top was a little bit of common, Through Northeburch We want. His arcs were sunburnt. He looked
corner of the editorial page of » boughs. Zephyrus, gentlest and kind carrying a notice board saying that and so to Tring the cleanest and a cross between Buffalo Bill and a liest of sylvan deities, bums his song of Chesham, Loid of the Manor" would handsomest little
had stage bandit.
{ha'penny papazs of large circulation). the seasons past present, and to come,
far. (in 260 miles) She jumped from her bicycle, and I copy it as it was made at the time. and a wandering humblebe (more prosecinte szy person camping on it,
clustered *bout A great park in a voice that was liquified music, Earwigs are bloody-minded pirates. pompous than humble) obliges with Now if there be one thing that This main highway was left at Aston cried, "O, the darling an obligato in deep base. Far off and must not appear in these papers, that Clinton, a thriving city containing The man turned his head, looked. A troop of them has invaded the carapace; the battle is still raging; faint, a thrash, not satisfied with the
thing is certainly politics. I think of three cottages, one barn, and an inn, and (so he thinks) he blushed. flood of melody of the morn-
and were now in Herts. We had But it was the cat she meant. The bat if we are defeated, we shall have ing's matins, sings, as though rehearsald England and its highway rights. ing, his mellifitons solo. Beech leaves but no, I don't. Let me think of the been in Berte, further back, but Duchess walked toward her, being sold our lives deadly. The carnage divarated into Backs again. partial to females, and was picked up has been unspeakable They sent are trazalucently green, and we get England that was before the lords The black line on our mapi and caressed. sensation as of stained glass, sooth and other great landowners impudent had some curious twists in it, as it The beautiful girl looked doubtfully spies before the battaliers. The ingly green, here in this verdantly and by knavery (see Parliamentary lengthened day by day. We entered at the man. He rose, lagged off his hat, Duchess caught one, and (having chapel erected to the glory of Pan.records) stole moet of the commons very lonely, a very curly, a very
more sense than I) was holding a court-martial, when I intered, reprov- Fallen from our shoulders, as Ban- (A common is a bit of "waste" land narrow, but a very charming country yan's pilgrim's fell, is every ounce of for comm-:a tae.) For the man who road which led to Ivinghoe. On the
ed her for cruelty, and removed the cars and worry; anz, soul is "born stole a goose from a common there way was a sort of lake, in which we
prisoner gently, quoting "Kim"- again"; we have a strange feeling was the pillory, the lash, the jail. could not resist the temptation to
"Go in peace, little brother. We be that this and only thus have we ex For the man who stole the common swim. There were no houses pear, to it.”
of one people, thou and I." To the isted from the beginning of things, from the goose Nemesis is still on the bat something that looked like a "Ma'mzelle" said the man in't it Duchess I said, severely, "I would and that we have swakened from way. I hope he'll burry. But as for Lathing but on the farther shore. Our rotten that there's no decent English not enter on my list of friends, the some vague, disturbing dream of a Lord Chesham, who assumes rights, tent was under two enormous willow form of addressing a person to whom man who needlessly sets foot upon a world where strangely foolish people over a common that he hasn't even trees. The willow's foliage is the you haven't been introduced 1) "I worm: ner love a cat who fortures buy and sell in "dusty, dry places, troubled to steal, what shall I say? nearest thing England has to bamboo, can only say that I-I love it."
little earwigs werely for the joy of seeing them looking at each other askance Great That is purely thetorical. You I've never seen-and I know rural Fan, we dambly cry-and Zephyrus needn't tell me. I said it at the time, England as few Englishmen can know she said, after I'd explained the is original) When the main body of "What a perfectly splendid idea." squirm. (Part of that poemlet says his cadence in a hash as of swe not for publication, but as a guarantee it such big willow trees anywhere sarapace, the cat, and the whole the enemy arrived, they conducted grant us this boon that never more of sincere feeling. As for his threat, before. The Duchess having younger business. I hope I didn't look and talk their operations in a cowardly, tres. may we dream such dreams, but ever I did camp for some hours on that bit eyes than mine, I made her lock alike a blithering ass, but I tell you cherous, abritish fashion. swake to sure consciousness that of grass. I knocked my pipe out ca high as she could. Then I started that lady's charm fairly bowled me detachment crept up my trouser leg. thot art then and we wholly thine. it, and in other ways disrespectfully looking where she left off, and looked over. I don't think I've ever seen, but that was an ambush as it happen. Here in thy sanctuary, O Pan, we asserted my right on it.
ap, and still there were green willow and I'm sure I never talked with, ed. They were wiped out. The main Always I was more leisure-boughs reaching skywards. GXATS Is on Sundays than on So far I had met only one of our OF coutse there were Bies.
other days, sometimes not landed gentry. He was on horse Rhapsodising in a scriptorium about walking at all. On this one, instead back, and he pulled up, and he said summer in the country, a man is apt of using my tiny stove, I gathered "You mustn't camp here We can to forget the flies. Here they would dat sticks for cooking fire, for I not have people like you loitering not let us. There is one, a sort of love the crackling of thorns under a about the place." gadfy, I suppose, from a third to half pot"-and baked potatoes in the red Me: When you say "we", what an inch long, his sbdomen marked ambers. They came out foury and am I to understand? That you are like that of a Ligurian bee, and his delicious. There were other courses, a monarch, an editor, or that you wings beautifully dispered, who steals but the spads were the best. Then have a worm ? "" apou one unawares, like first love the Duchess went into the bedge a and, like the strong wine that is a hunting, and I spent the afternoon mocker. at the last he biteth like an Iying on my back, studying gusts. adder, and we swear, and fick away There were eight manceuvring, about his bloodswollen corpse, and chafe the seven feet from the ground, and never wound, and all the poetic flaptoodle more than a foot to eighteen inches that we were charged with, hike a from the end of a bough of wych- syphon, goes fzzat.
hazel
swear--.
Dain the fies!""
1 MEET
AN ARTIST
At Beaconsfield, where Do you know how to pronounce we tock in ale, baccy, "wych"? I don't. and water, we made the
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He puffed his cheeks and made a noise I cannot possibly spell. Said he would not tolerate being addressed so impudently. That he was a magis- trate, and——-”
Ar ominous histus.
and I'll mind mine.”
the
"I hope you won't mind, but I do so love littens, and yours is such beautiful one I-I hope you are kind
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dear
One
are perfect example of English body went into laager in the mattress, girlhood And presently, with a kiss and others in the cooking utensils. for the Duchess, and a hod and smile After a sort of Spion Kop afsit, in for me that settled my business, she which we slew about 8.430, more or rode on. Ititivated" myself a bit, less, there has been a whole day of hoping to impress her more favourab guerilla warfare. The Duchess attends ly on her return; but the did not to the sniper: I am scouting for the come back. I never saw her again positions of the main bodies. bar yet I see her always.
present plan of campaign is to claBE Next morning I found a at any cost the camp. The Duchess THE network of byroads, and tells me that earwigs are hypocrites DUCHESS
the Grad Junction who never wash themselves.. I won't COLNITS Canal. At Ivinghoe, an go so far myself: I daresay same siu MURDER uninteresting hamlet set decent fellows; but I must treat them. on bars hills, our road jäs trespassers Possibly, harid carved tharply southwards, though thought, some of the land owner
the map regard me and my like as earwige. marked straight on Presently it resumed the northing business; and led us over a grand pass, with sweeping views all round of fruitful country.
beginning:
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ing up my log. After a search, he would see a stream of young me and women cycling or walking in bo directions. Thus many Hitch people go to work at Baldock, a vice versa. As they passed I wou hear comments, as they dispoves my carapace shrinking shyly in hedge or under a tree.
Upon the Chilterns stood an Inn Both picturesque and old. Cory and warm it looked withis, Outside 'twas wet and cold, Above the door a creaking sign Was swinging to and fro,
Immiled as sweetly as I could,
One thing I noticed (and there have been women who said
which is oddly lik I smile a nice smile)
the old joke of thị "Look here," I said. "Don't be a
two asses at a fence They hovered, sometimes making sPompous ass. You've shown your
At the "Travellers' Rest" inn, each eating grass out of the othe acquaintance of a periconstelation like Ursa Major, and authority. I've had my little joke.
Say I'camped be patetic artist,-edu ́ated
that tween two towns half a dozen mil (so he said) as a Blueccat, brought once in a while, say twice a minute, You know, I know, very well, that lonely house, I had two pints of ale, donkey's field.
I've as much right here as you have, the landlord informing me "trod the mazy figure" of a they up as a jockey, and now taken to Art. dance. At: these times they set med So long as I keep my side of highly of it. He had seen me enter- cally called "knocking of time," "other writing gentlemen" spoke apart. At what I believe is techn He had choobs" and canvasses with to be colliding. Suddenly I stared hedges, you mind your own basiness, him, and confided, that his specialty hard, rubbed my eyes. There were was "painting 'osses." It was an ine. Whence the new chum? I
I had more to say, but he was rid-produced a copy of a "poem," advantage, as he explained, that he ad bolted them carefully, more ing away before I could get it cut. enjoyed over many B.A... that he than once. (I learned, as a boy, to He was (as I guessed from really knew the points of a recount the heads" of a large flock of numerous notice boards dotted about, Maybe I saw the new White' Orse st Somethingham? He painted that, sheep racing past. It's a knack.) with the name on it) a Captain so from an 'unter he knew, sad gentry eight again, then as low as five Finally with the latest edition of. Stone's Presently the nine became seven, then and so with a hypher, Somebody should knock his bullet-head hard
Wot the's this 'ere?" " passing all said as whoever painted it
I discovered the reason. I can only stices' Manual. What it must be to know'da 'one all right. His missus describe it as a series of marriage
Then "the loud laugh that spe was travelling with him, had a few
the vacant mind." There were One keeper rang out
There were four other stanzas. The temps at wit, like 'e aint forgot Eve or nine, the mazy movement thinking how good God was to make things to sell. No licence though, and and divorces in mid air. But whether be a tramp "without visible mesas."
hoped she wouldn't get pinched.
THEN A Of concealment England just like that, I pulled my There she was, now, talking to a old
and subject was finer than the verse. The bring his cat with im." By far went on for ever
KEEPER, truculently demanded of landlord refused to take any money favourite remark (I must have h home up the long bill to Beaconsfield to Thanks, mate. I haven't had
I thought (Heaven only
if I me
bsd a for a baby thicken that the Duchess it over a hundred times) was “** At an ina near the foot, where I the old pipe filled, ye may say, for a
knows why) of the wife white cat as well as that one-feloniously and of malice aforethought up thy bed and walk.” It was in fortified myself with the usual foam-week, and good baccy is meat and
who complained that her indicating the Duchess. I asked did kill and murder: Dunstable be gratifying to me to find the script ing tankard, the innkeeper told me I drink to a man like me. Well, if you're would "ave it ball up 'ill to Beckon moving on, good luck, mate, I lep
husband's jealousy made him in return, first screwing in my gan just over the crest of the which I have done so much to ber wretched. Her friend: monocle (the glass out of a no-good bill, and we thought, it minste, familiar in the minds sfill"-an illustration of our common out last night-wish we had a boutfit" But has his jealousy no founda watch) where he thought I was to was four o'clock, to have to months of the proletariat. It di English way of altering place names. like that nobby one o' yourn. I'm tion The wife: "Of course not sleep, if I filled up my carapace with st the first in, and pass heart good. Not always dot! He had an infant in his arms, a small. man boy by his leg, and two little maids trying to get lodgings here to-night. He suspects the wrong man." !!SPIRIT could not make love pro-standing near, wearing once white think I can sell a picture 'ere,
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white cats. I said I hadn't white through to Luton afterwards. It was good seed fall upon parched gro cal, and wouldn't have a white cat, the first on the right as you enter The ribald remarks did not m lock, I was awakened some time after by because white cats are all deaf, and as Dunstable from Ivinghoe and I want AND perly because (as he told and now otherwise combination gar- FLESH. the lady) be bad a gum-meat, consisting of bodice and what
the rumble of a deep bass voice. Long I wanted somebody to talk to, beside you to remember and avoid it, for of course. I am as nearly impe The garrulous little man seemed to before the speaker came into view keepers, I carried a yellow one.
they refused to supply tea, on the ples to ridicule as a man can be boil, to last week I rome I may term lower sleeves. They looked abat- siarted-my-story-skipping cool. I thought how blessed is the enjoy the sound of his own voice, round the bend of the road, I heard
He changed his tone. He even said that mother was busy". I made tes confess the other sort uplifted m mato, and made dry trading of it man that hath bis quiverful, and losnatches of which continued to reach it. Rumbling. There was a woman "Sir" as he explained that a white in camp, later, ontspanning in the cheered me, and gratified me me as I moved away. These bills with him a woman of about forty, eat had been about among the young country just west of Luton, and wavinced that I was a fellow, d because of a private trouble. Erease two more little maids appeared (aum that I was now climbing were as still with the remains of a handsome pheasants, and be thought, seeing I were both disgruntled, the Duchess now. A young woman cyclin me, won't you?
moned by cries of "come and, ses the My next camp was at kitten"). They were rabbing their eying as the Mendips had been, face. She wore a natty sailor blouse had one, etc.
though I was now stronger and better and short shirt. They were talking Burnham Beeches, between eyes as if just ap. It was about eight able to attack them. They were the earnestly, the man wheeling a bicycle. BUCKS. Farbam (Bucks, nota.m. That made mix, a fine collection
Chilterns, "for which,” as I she swinging her arms. They checked Surrey) and Beaconsfield. of healthy looking youngsters, and I
"I would not apply again.””
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alking over the delay, and I banning her young man kept her eyes There were hundreds Dunstable with a triple ban. It was until it became physical of little coops in the least pictures que campo siblity for her to tuza he Bucks, each contain had, with no view worth sketching farther without risk of strang
The place was as pretty as the name, I had just counted when I saw two bumorously remarked at the time, the debate when they saw us, and ing a broody hen, which hatches the but we slept well, and were afoot athen I heard her say, "What
It may sound mopatriotic, maybe, small boys in the lobby. "I said to but the beech is my favourite tree him: "Fins lot of baims, roaster. You may talk of your English oak all All yours?”
tree.
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while they passed. A little farther eggs, and mothers the young pheas six, and through Laton before eight. fectly splendid arrangement My diary refers to on, but out of sight behind my screen ants. The chicks can get out into the This is a much larger town then we reconciled me for the rest of t "adventure with mad of brambles, their foot-steps stopped grass. The hen cannot. In that can expected, almost a city: it's the place ing to the odour of methylate you want to, and 'tis surely a noble "Aye" he said, "but I've a daughter
man, who thought me The ramble was renewed, Presently fined space, facing the south, with where they make the pananahate which was beginning to p
goes**
s” well enough, by t tree, especially when grown in deep in service, and a lad serving his warder in pursuit of him." I call the woman returned passed with her sweltering weather, no exercise, her you know,
And mother, nothing of it now, and suppose it may face averted, but I could see she was heart anxious when the chicks leave
Thus it seemed that with all foods except ch clay; but I do think the beach is very time at the tailoring
this night I had slept advise my readers t English, typically English, a homey the has the baby in the kitchen, siz have been a note for joke. But I do weeping silently. A-little beyond, I her, and very likely no water (for it
in Beds. (Bedford their cheese without ̈me It is likewise in all ways more He was evidently proud of his remember spending some hours in an aber with the backs of her hande would need many keepers to provide orchard with a maiden who fed me dash the drops from her eyes. The fresh drinking water for so many
chire). Next day, for spirits. The combination is beautiful, whether you regard the Rooseveltian virtae. Contour, the foliage in mass, the bark,
with cherries, and detained mein talk man must have mounted his bicycle, coups dotted over so large an area) the fourth or fifth time, I was in unpleasing. I do not know As I climbed the long hills, I or the spreading limbs of it. The word thought: Beaconsfield. Of course so that may mileage was no more than for never heard is heavy read there must be a tremendous lot of Herts, again. Passed through Lilley sociable liquor. There is n "beech" is the same as "took in old Naturally a beacon would be high up one per hour for that day. I records again. She walked, listlessly, with craal suffering. It was comical to see and Offley (which I feebly diaried as hat the smell geta uneasy Saxon, because, they say, the old But why do all the natives call it good night's sleep in camp back slightly bowed, toward Chesham, some of the young phoints perched, "offey pretty to the undoubtedly time, and gets up add wal mile out of the very Was it a parting? Or a misunders early of a morning, like sentinels on ngly little town of Hitchin. Ugly in its sleep, maybe; and ti rones were written on thin boards Beckon? Was that the older half • of this wood. Prior traces it even to pronunciation? After all, there is Here (ir that village) I read the
ald-fashioned village of Amersham tanding ?
the tops of the coops, while below, name ugly place,
to dream that I-wax judje s the Sanscrit. An old English name relation of meaning between" beckon following alarming notice on a board: each other, how you misunderstand protruded and twisted, to enable her in the lantern beat and drooped until a prize for her own, and
Omen, women? How you need through the bars, a hon's nock was It was awfully hot. The war candle Show, that I hadn't given The Magistrates acting for this each other, how you grieve each other to see what the little darlings were it was 8 shaped. When I looked at ing to escape the ustural co
Hundred have given peretap and generally it is trifes that spoil doing. tory Order to the Countables the far picture of your happiest and other Peace Officers to relations. So soliloquising, I got up A ROMANTIO (bird time) and one Offley, a now we "know the deriva- friends wondered what es Apprehend all Common Beg and made-tea. A jark sang." The ADVENTURE. of England's fairest tion of the common English expres come of the poor fellow gars, Ballad Birgers and other Dockers paired. In my cats was the
types of beauty, son, Oley hot." It was so hot miserably, feeling worry Vagrants for that they may be drowsy hum of insects. The leaves of the English rose, kind, was cycling that ever the kitten began to melt and woke up with a war Dealt with according to Law. the cak just sighed for the passing of gently Kong. She wore a floppy At least, the left a yellow mark on my turbod the Dachres
clean collar of this Sunday baby brees The sky was being a coat that on a man would be called blanket, which is strong execumstantial with yoken and claws. mom, and perhare the monocle, saved | bine as hard as ever it could.
binner, & white skirt, stockings and evidence, nha being a yellow out.
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for the fruit was back," which may ing" and signalling by beseen. account for Buckinghamshire, which
of all the counties seems to sperialize
beeches though we grow fine ones
Then a workmaa offered TAX. to give me a pak up srozry bill, remarking that Ž didn't look as if I were
in Cemberland, let me tell you. Eome", ENGLISH, people extract cooking oil from the
used toʻanch bard work.
Eruit of the beech. When I was a I thanked him cordially, but declined boy I ate much of it; but the dreams › ossistance. • If I get help,” I said, I dreamed under broches I remember" "I lose my bet,”
berk Bo, site two nights in, this: “ Ah,” mid he approval writ large Martins, in parte action, and xpon him,*. K thort it wens suustat
it again it was a pool of liquid fat, by crawling through a dr evensong dripping on to the bed. This was at got stuck, and choked,
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