three old male folks may be admitted if very good humoured a few pleasant children and one � only one dear old lady to her let the whole department be by the entire assembly beforehand and give her the utmost powers of a for so nothing we want be left at home it is not fun to find one s self without to his cold lamb nobody who is properly constituted without fresh butter and when you are fond of it is not cheerful to find the bottle of dressing which was to young master brown has broken in his filthy pocket these things all occur unless we have our one dear old lady who else would have seen to that of glass being packed with such judgment who else would have brought the plate � i confess i dislike steel forks � in her own private bag who else could have so piled upon without a crack or a for the rich red to well through who else has the art of preserving cream in a can observe her little bottle of mark each individual as it forth from its separate look at the salt box � look at the bless her dear old heart she has forgotten nothing however humble the meal let it be complete and it can t be complete without its one dear old lady the girl with the prettiest hands will be generally found � in accordance with the eternal fitness of things � ing the cup the young man � the one young man who should have the sole charge of the bottle department and who must not be her lover � assisting her and is the best mixture for ladies if you have no cup and beer remember in stone bottles is almost always flat let there be plenty of railway to sit and upon for in most of nature s h and by the sea coast especially the seats and are hard and at times damp i had the mark of a stone � which i was not bom with but which i thought i should carry to my grave � most firmly impressed upon me until quite lately the consequence of an open air entertainment in the beginning of last autumn if there is the slightest chance of people being dull take the last new poem i have heard better criticism again and again jove than that of the weekly of take a � a if there is an echo � take a sketch book or two for they often suggest and never conversation and if the company be very and rather take the racing game or a pack of cards don t be too polite for drawing room manners are out of place at a but do your very best either in carving the chicken or in saying good things according to your gifts and by the bye if there is anything forgotten after all don t send the most amusing person youve got back for it because he is the youngest or the poorest for that as the say is a great waste of power but let the stout rich party go instead who is as much out of his element among you as an de camp at church if you are by the sea side be very careful not to break the bottles for when they are empty and well they swim in the water and afford excellent objects for to both sexes if there be any servants drivers or don t forget that they appreciate having the things left for them and tolerably neat and if they take your places don t put everything of value out of sight as though you were afraid of their stealing them let the gentlemen withdraw themselves after dinner from the weaker vessels who can t stand smoke and enjoy their cigars the one dear old lady aided by her obedient and neat handed will during that period be putting the back again and the plate into her private bag and that wiu be the time also you will be remarked upon if you have the most comfortable place during the meal or have spoiled a dress through or have been eating rapidly in order to secure two helps of it is now when the glory of landscape or of ocean stretches before you and your every sense is satisfied that you must feel if ever benevolence towards the whole human race friendship for those present and love for one at least of them it is the period for affectionate thought and conversation the time to glance from theme to theme discuss the books to love or hate to touch the changes of the state or thread some deep dream how well the poet from whom these words are borrowed has understood this matter he and his beloved friend who the shadows of the elms and the towering more so fair after the dust and din and steam of town who bearing all that weight of learning lightly like a flower brought an eye for all he saw and mixed in all the simple out door who fed both heart and ear of the charmed circle as they lay and listened to his reading on the lawn who loved himself to listen while the maiden flung her ballad to the brightening moon the while the stream ran on the wine lying in moss or cooled within its wave and last returning from afar before the crimson star had fallen into her s grave and brushing deep in flowers they heard behind the veil the milk that in the and of the hours they went home � that is to say to tea wherein they showed their wisdom my own first recollections of a course of are derived from those in my boyhood held at spring upon the river thames near i was then an boy and my family living in 