Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-19

wrestling and putting the.stoue. Ever
glorious Punch and Judy are ominipres-
ent and scfcamingly witty and hilarious
Donkeys by the thousands and screws
by the hundreds are here for uproanous
riding and racing The threc-card.
monte game Is everywhere Knock EN-
down by the hundreds, with their crash.
ing and bawling and shouts OF defeat
and victory, are all the way rom Wan
stead to Epping. American shooting.
saloons are quite as frequent aud well
patronized. The ariiheia. pigeon whirls
aud ilies from scores Of booths and The
detonaiions Of the shooting are incess.
ant There are more than q thousand
Of my old Clpsy friends, IN all manner
OF picturesque apparel, plying their
'dukkering' among the good nllurcd
Arfys and Arricts Mingled with all
this aud these are the shouts and cries
Of every manner OF akir from every
land beneath the sun, the bfayings OF
hundreds Of open air speakers, who as at
Hyde Park inveigh against the very
liberty that gives them opportunity for
denunciation. aud, louder and more dis.
cordant than All else, the wailings and
exhottations Of the Salvaiionists, the
barbaric clamor OF their iambourInes,
iiics and drums, persistent reminder OF
pence'pulling and repentance.
II Is saying little for lem aud Becky
and myself TO assert that We participated
fully Ia the exhliratIng diversions Of
Epping Forest Then, the cnvied OF
many eyes, we pariook OF our glorious
repast beneath the very shade OF Queen
Elizabeth's hunting lodge a quaint, old
and lofty half'umbercd structure, which
has been beautifully restored, where
faithful Sprat landed DIR hampers vic.
ioriously after many bmvely resisted
siege, aud then, the cnyicd Of thousands
still, as the sole occupants OF q White
chapel bus we were driven IN noble
style about the Forest, away 10 Epping,
once famous for Is sausage, pork and
cheese, to Monks Wood, and the great
pollard oaks; 10 the old British camp NJ
Ambrcsbury Banks, 10 Hawk Wood
Hill and is famous obclisk; and TO High
Beach, nearly 500 feet above London.
where almost the entire fringe Of Epping
Forest with is WoudrOus historic inter-
est lies clear and imr below,
The old.world valley Of the river Lea,
scene Of Waltons eatlies, angling days
and Of the incidents OF the Angler 20 is
beneath you to the west Miles TO the
north and south are Us snug villages, It's
WED churches, It's hall-hid. stately halls.
Just here beside you is Beech Hill house,
where Tennyson wrote the Talking
OAK and "Lockslcy Hall" Far to the
west arc the uplauds Of the Cambridge
shire hills. Between. a slumbfous valley
with an ideal English landscape. In is
center stands ancient Waliham Abbey,
mouniul and pathetic reminder OF a
departed day and time, Of Harold ana
his lavished treasures, and OF his march
10 Hastings to meet fierce William Of
Normandy. Nearer still lies COPIED
Hal, where In the eaflyrclgn OF Edward
vi. Princess Mary was held prisoner;
and at Fair Mead house beyond, the
gentle poet Glare was brought a mental
wreck.
Back at Chingford. as the sun was set.
ting behind the Hampstead Hills, an the
converging ways to London seemed
dense with a routed army In It's flight
Bolivar was impatient TO oyeftahe the
disappearing host. Right herrily we
had come to Epping, but merrier still
we returned 20 grlmy London, racing
aud singing In humble coster fashion all
the too short way. When we ratified
into welcoming Bell Lane, aud Bolivar
came 10 a sudden hat before our own
habitation, lem aud myself, In pleasant
converse, were alone upon the box 4"
Spat aud Becky were a confused heap
Of oyergtOwn attire, soiled velye. and
Struggling coster feathers In the bottom
OF the cart. But when wc pulled Becky
out and stood her upon her ample legs
within the doorway, all the pleasures Of
the day seemed to steal softly again into
her sunny coster nature; and as reward
for our gallant outing ways she clappcd
us both, lem and !, soundly on our
backs with her broad, honest hands and
softly mumured:
Lads, III never al sech enjoy
blc-sech a hinlormin' n enjoy'ble time
--neVer,
EDGAR l.. WAEEMAN.