Amongst the blue garbed boatmen. Across the canal stretch wide fields of golden rape blossoms, banded. with strips and square mauve while the exquisite pert sorns are wafted on the light breezes scme 2—WOODS AND MEANOWS.
Across the gang plank and out upon the dewy grass file the campers, ready for a long tramp, the nen' courting sunburn in jerseys fand shorts, the women knickered ypeak- but sunhatted. all with stout. sticks. Off through the deny grass they move, across the folds, Skirting the patches of clover, though Kittle groves of pines, or elms, marking the more or "less formal' burial mounds. Buttercups and dandelions, "'mock lacs" and a variety of flowers fleck the grass with colour.
Under matshed stone mikons are blocking out granite slabs for still more graves. No matter hoy desperate a struggle for existence the survivors may have, no matter how little genuine respect or affes-these elaborate tombs betoken, the clutch of the dead hand impossible to break. Out here inthe peace and beauty of the country one can be thankful that the rites duo the dead at least bring the living out into these {sylvan surroundings end furnish excuse for what seems Tike 1 outing. Seo the revere Eleced, round the jamb, the heaps of paper money, the "family standing about from tiny tots to. grandfathers, while the head of the house makes obeisance.
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