The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-22

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4 SUMMER LkfI1n.
sBY HExHY wAHu 1sScn1a.
! A MAr1EwAK, July n, 1857.
Nobody has any businsse q expect satis.
faction in . pare cyuntfy HE, for twt
months unless they have . decided genIu,
/ for ieisure. II man expects 70 liveiin ths
1 country, TO gain and spend h.s mssns there
/ of course he must have something to do
and 70 do it all the while. So, TOO, those
who have tramp on hand who make !
pedestrian tour or ! fishing excursion mos,
needs stir about it. Likewise must they have
something to do who 60 into the country 70
see the city people in the country. Such
take TO be all ioungers and visitors at fash
ionable country resorts. This iunacy, how
ever, is modest. II pretenes TO nothing bu,
| what it is. But to gather up yourself and
kindred, and sit down in . plain country
house, without bears or lions about it, with
out anything to Do but to rest, withno mar
vels or phenomena, but only the good, real
common country-if you mean to be happy
in this, repeat, you should have the element
Of leisure fully developed in you.- You can
not be happy II you are ina hurry to get up
or to set down. You must not be IN hurry
t. get up in the morning or % retire at night.
You must regard it US quite the Same, whsth-
er you look 1t tree ten minutes or thirty.
II you walk out, never must you look at
your watch; 20 till you return. If you sit
down upon breezy fence or wall, it should
be matter Of Indifference to you whether
it be four O'Clock or Eve or six. There can
be no greater impertinence than to say it is
time to 60! There is no such thing as time
to man in . summer vacation.
When you come into new scene, you
must not expect to be at home in moment.
Nature may say to you very kindly, s'safake
yourself at home;" but nature says it Just
as any other sensible parsonage does, not
with the expectation that you will do it, but
only to show a spirit Of hospitality. For it
is quite impossible that you should be ac-
quainted with scenery in moment. Ma
ture is both frank and shy. Like well-bred
people she receives you graciously in all
common intercourse, but confident 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 matters
in thus growing acquainted with new scene-
ry. We never can get along but only just
SO fast. Things must begin to be familiar
before we feel their full meaning; and fa-
miliarity comes not by dunning and ques-
tioning, not by putting at things, as bur-
glar would at q 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 edu-
cation. Man is forever disciple, and not
a master, before nature. He that knows
more than nature does about beauty, will
get very little help from her.
The eye is daguerrotype plate. It is set
to receive pictures-not compose or paint
them. The art of seeing well is not to think
about seeing. Let your eye alone. Let it
60 as the clouds GO, floating hither and
thither 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 great many
things, but sees only few; and those things
which come back to him spontaneously,
which rise up as pictures, afterwards are
the things which be really saw.
There is time for exact study, and sharp
examination, and all that; but it is not in
summer Vacations, of which am speaking,
when man is looking ut nature for no other
purpose than a good, rich and ripe enjoy
ment. a
Yet, amid this tranquil, dreaming, gazing
life, one cannot alwas be quite as serene Us
they would. For example, this morning,
while the dew was yet upon the grass, word
came that "Charley had got away" Now
Charley is most important member of the
family, and as shrewed u horse as ever need
be. Lately he had found out the difference
between being harnessed by boy and
man. Accordingly, on several occasions,
rs soon as the halter dropped from his head,
and before the bride couIi take its place, he
proceeded to back boldly out Of the stable,
IN spite OF the s.out boy pulling with all his
might at his name and ears.
This particular morning, we were to pu, Q
passenger friend on board the cars at liz
it was now 7.3O. Out popped Charley
from his stall like cork from bottle, and
10 some fifty acres there were in which to
exercise his legs asd ours, to say nothing
OF temper and ingenuity. First, the lady,
with measure OF oats, attempted to dc the
thing by bribing hlm genteeiy. Not he
lie had no objection to the oats, none to the
hand, until it come near his head, then off
he sprang. After one Or twu trials, we
dropped the oats and went ut it in good
earnest-called all the boys-headed him off
this way-ran him cut 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 if they had
been so many mosquitoesl Down he ran
to the lower side of the lot, and down we
all walked after him. Up be ran to the
upper end of the lot, and up we all walked
after him-to0 tired to run. Oh, it was
glorious fun!
The sun was hot. The cars were coming
and we had two miles to ride to the depot
He did enjoy it, and we did not. We resort
ed to expedient,-opened wide the great gate
OF the barn-yard and essayei to drive him in
and we did 1t, too, almost; for he ran close
up to it,-and just sailed past, with a laugh
as plain on his face as ever horse had Man
- NdSly SupcIIoI W morse IN many respects.
But running, in hot summer day, in twen-
ty acre lot, is not one Of them! We got HIM
by the brook. and while he drank, oh how
leisurely, we started up, and succeeded in
just missing our grab at his name! Now
comes another splendid run. His head was
up, his eye flashing, his tail streamed out
like banner, and glancing his head this way
and that, right and left, he allowed US to
come on to the brush corner; frcm whence,
in few moments, he allowed us to emerge,
and came afoot after him, down to the barn
again. But luck will not hold forever, even
with horses. He dashed down the lane,
and we had him! But as soon as he saw the
gate closed, and perceived the state Of the
case, how charmingiy he behaved allowed
US to come up and bride him without a
movement of resistance. and affirmed by