The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1857-08-14

b this, | repeat, you should have tn
:, element OF leisure fully developed /
8 you. You cannot be happy il y ou ar
e in hurry. You must notbe ia huu
= to get up in the morning or to retire !
e night. You must regard il as quite th
a same whether you look at a tree te
q minutes or thirty. lf you walk ou
never must you look at your watch; g
, ill you return. II you sit down upol
|. breezy fence or wall, it should be
!. matter ofindifference to you whethe
it bo four o'clock or five or six. Their
can be no greater impertinence than Il
3 say it is time 10 go! There is no sucl
thing as time TO man in a summe
vacation.
When you come into a new scene
. you uust not expect TO be at home in
moment. Nature may say to y ou very
kindly, Make y ourself at home," bu
nature says il just as any other sensi
slble parsonage does, not with the ex
pee tation that you will do it, but only
TO show spirit Of hospitality. For i
Is quite impossible that you should be
acquainted with scenery in moment t.
Nature is both frank and shy. Like
well.bred people, she receives ou gra
cIously in all common intercourse, but
con6dentislly only after she has found
you out, and knows you TO be worthy
Sudden intimacies are always shallow.
Wells quickly dug are quickly dry -
We have never been able to force mat.
ters in thus growing acquainted with
new scenery. We never can get along
but only just so fast. Things must be.
gin to be familiar before we feel their
full meaning, and familiarity comes
not by dunning and questioning, not by
putting at things, as a burglar would
at lock, punching and screwing, but
by natural and gradual opening OF
things TO us, by growing sensibility
in US to them. For there is always to
be an education. Man is'for ever adis.
ciple, and not master, before nature.
He that knows more than nature does
about beauty, will get very little help
from her.
The eye is dasnerreo,yo pl-.- u
Is Sci ~ ie.ei'e r;-.----. -ot compose
or paint them. The art OF seeing we'll
is not TO think about seeing. Let our
eye alone. Let go as clouds 90, float.
ing hither and thilher at their will
Things will come to you if you are
patient and receptive. No man knows
what he sees, but only what he has
seen. One looks at q great many
things, but sees only few; and those
things which come back to him spon.
taneousIy. which rise up as pictures,
afterwards are the things which he real.
ly saw.
There is asii.ne for exact study, and
sharp examination, and all that. but it
is not in summer vacations, Of which |
am speaking. when a man is looking
at nature for no other purpose than rich,
ripe enjoyment.
Yet, amid this tranquil, dreaming,
gazing life, one cannot always be quite
as serene as they would. For exam.
pie, this morning, while Inc dew was
yet on the grass, word came that "Char.
ley had got away" Now, Charley is
a most important member Of the family
and as shrewd horse as ever need be.
Lately he had found out the difference
between being harnessed by a boy and
a man. Accordingly, on several occa.
sions, as soon as the halter dropped
from his head, and before the br die
could take its place, he proceeded to
back boldly out Of the stable, in spite
OF the stout boy pulling with all his
might at his name and ears. This
particular morning, we were 10 put o
passenger frierd on board the cars at
Slot was now 7.30. Out popped
Charley from his stall like cork from
bottle, and 10! some fifty acres there
were in which 10 exercise his legs and
ours, to say nothing Of temper and in.
genuity. First, the lady, with meas.
ure OF oats, attempted to do the thing
by bribing him genteelly. Not he!-
He had no objection TO the oats. none
to the hand, until it came near his head,
then of he sprang. After one or two
trials we dropped the oats and went at
it n:good earnest-called all the boys,
headed him of this way ran him out of
the growing oats, drove him into the
upper lot and out OF it again. We got
him into corner. with great pains, and
he got himself out Of it without the least
trouble. He would dash through line
Of six or eight whooping boys, with as
little resistance as il they had been so
many mosquitoes! Down ho ran to
the lower side Of the lot, and drown we
walked after him. Up he ran to the
upper end Of the lot, and up we all
walked after hlm--too tired TO run. Oh,
it was glorious fun The sun was hot.
The cars were coming. aud We had two
miles TO ride to the depot! He did en-.
Joy it, and we did not. We rcsorted to
expsdients,-opened wide the great
gate Of the barn.yard and essayed TO
drive him in, and did it. too, almost;
for he ran close up to it.-and Just sail
ed past, with laugh as plain on his
face as ever horse had! Man is vastly
superior TO a horse in many respects.
But running, on hot summer day,
lin twenty acre lot, is not one OF them!
We got him by the brook, and while he
drank, oh how laisurely, we started up
and succeeded in just missing our grab
at his mane Now comes another splen.
did run. His head was up, his eye
flashing, his tail streamed out like q
banner, and glancing his head this way
and that, right and left, he allowed u.
to come on to the brush corner; from
whence, 10 few moments, he allowed
US to emerge, and come afoot after him
down TO the barn again. But lnck viii
not hold for ever, even horses. He dash
ed down lane,-snd we had him.
But as soon as ne saw the gate closed
aud perceived the state OF the case, hov
: charmingly he behaved,-allowsd u