The usual procedure is more like this. As soon as the spot which is to be favoured with your holiday presence is determined upon there comes a short, sharp seizure of activity which proves so exhausting that one retires from actual participation in shopping bouts or preliminary packing to the realms of imagination where ideal arrangements for the future are made. Swaying lazily in a hammock, with a lemon squash close to hand, with pencil and paper one may transport a family of any size to any place for any length of time with perfect case and efficiency.
Under circumstances like the above the children's clothes are all clean at the same time, they never clamour to take the entire contents of the nursery with them, nor do they ever fall ill and delay or hasten the family's arrangements thereby. The shopping for the trip looks like an hour's work when it is is jotted down on a memorandum but owing to the innate perversity of inanimate objects and their—reluctance to be found conveniently grouped together in the same shop, the matter of purchasing takes much longer than is intended.
Then, too, as*one visualized the future one mentally reserves two or three clear days for the final assembling and packing. Alas, kind hearted friends will insist on speeding parting friends with
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