they feel equal to do so: thus they will adopt the safest way to secure all the beneficial and agreeable results of a pedestrian journey. Experience will probably have already convinced some of our readers that our advice, resulting from the same instructive source, is not to be despised, even by comparatively old hands, on commencing a tour after a period of sedentary pursuits and comparative bodily inactivity: though there may be some buoyant spirits who feel as if they had done nothing unless they came in like a horse after a day's hunting, tired and jaded with a glorious run, (in exciting companionship of the baying hound and bugle note,) forgetting most probably, as such highflyers generally do, that the hunter gets the next day for recruiting repose; so that, in fact, he only runs generally three or four days out of the week. This reflection will be sufficient to moderate, we hope, the zeal of those freshmen who seem not yet to have learnt that discretion is the better part of valorous enterprise! We are certain that many a green tourist gets dispirited, if not almost disgusted, with what he pays too dear for in the purchase of, whereas the fault lies entirely with the folly of his own extravagant bid, and not in the article. This remark applies not only to this little episode of our common life, but to that ordinary routine of our course, as well, which because we pursue with too absorbing an aim, too avaricious a grasp-palls, wearies, and disgusts. What saith the sage Armstrong (page 36 of his valuable poem on health) in reference to overwrought exertion ? "For know, whate'er Beyond its natural fervour hurries on The sanguine tide; whether the frequent bowl, Protracted; spurs to its last stage tired life, 57. Early rising is at all times so unquestionable a good habit, and so conducive to mental and bodily vigour, that few words need be added to enforce the carrying out of this practice, as well on the starting as on all succeeding days; the pure freshness of the air penetrating like a cordial to the inmost recesses of our nature, fulfilling body and mind with the glow of conscious and joyous existence, until a sensation of almost bursting life chases the blood through its several channels with the bounding flow of healthful activity-an enjoyment the sluggard never realizes, even in the allcapable range of his snoring ideal life. A few miles stepped out before breaking the fast will make light work of the rest of the day's labours; and a keen appetite acquired for breakfast is of itself no mean recommendation-indeed, of such preponderating value is this motive alone with many, that did it co-exist with no other, it would raise them from their couch, and cause them to sally forth early. We need scarcely stop to remark, besides all just stated, that, as far as the search of the picturesque goes, no time equals the morning for beauty and sharpness of outline, whether the objects be mountain peak or mirrored lake: all nature around wears a youthful brow, and, if the sun shines out, then, in the flowing language of Shelley's translation of a hymn in Faust- "The world's unwithered countenance Is bright as on creation's day." An old Latin doggrel has presumed even to fix the hour for rising, in order, we suppose, that, by adopting the benevolent suggestion of a standard hour, mankind may derive the advantage of imitating the regulated visits of Aurora's early beams: "Surge quintâ, Prande nonâ, Dormi nonâ, Nec est morti Which, being rendered into English, will run thus, making allowance for our modern confusion of meal times: Rise at five who has the power; Breakfast and lunch at nine's good hour; Ne'er cut short life's little span. Thus, then, we have got our chart to steer by; and, though an adage of olden time, it will hold good now-adays at all events, in country rambles and healthseeking tours. We have the hour, then, laid down, though the cloth wants laying for 58. Breakfast; and, moreover, something to garnish it with, suitable for the devastations of a hungry pedestrian. We can't exactly produce the materials, but we can suggest what we have found, from experience, the most hunger-proof amongst provisions-that is, instead of tea or coffee, a good jug of well-made cocoa or chocolate. There is something substantial in it: the stomach takes some time to discuss its endless resources of liquid nutriment. If to such a host in itself, you append plenty of bread and butter, and an assortment of fish, flesh, or fowl, or eggs, you cannot starve though you wait till afternoon for your next substantial meal, viz., dinner. Tea is all very well in a drawing-room; or when pursuing literary avocations, a light meal is required, in order to let the brain have more opportunity for concentrated thought; but when at ploughman-like labours, the nearer you come to his solid subsistences the better. We fancy tea will come in with a better grace towards the fag end of the day, say after dinner, as a diluent of aromatic and grateful nature. In C. Croker's Legends we find, and cannot help extracting, the following rich and appropriate passage: "A fine day anywhere is a fine thing; but a fine day at Killarney is the finest of all possible things. Only see how clear the mountain looks, with but one little silvery cloud sleeping in the hollow of the Devil's Punchbowl, the broad face of the sun smiling on it, as if he was just going to say, 'You brat of a cloud, I'll swallow you up in a twinkling! It would be a pity to lose a moment- " Hallo, Gorham! breakfast, breakfast, all in a hurry, if you please; tea, coffee, bread, butter, toast, eggs, ham, honey, salmon, all very good -is everything ready, Gorham?' 'Yes, sare."'" 59. Supposing that now our friends-we use the plural, because we wish it to be understood there must be a little knot of two, three, or four "jolly companions every one," banded together for the trip, in order that even one individual may reap the whole benefit of the tour-supposing, then, that all are in full sail now, passing along the pleasant hedgerow, the rude stone wall, or crossing some open moorland, singing and shouting as you go along: we would commend so goodly an exercise for the lungs, whose proportionate expansion calls forth, and gives new tone to, their elastic tissues, whereby the blood is more freely received from, and remitted to, the heart; and, by its more than wonted contact in these channels with the vivifyiny air, it circulates with a freer bound, imparting new zest to life; and so leap forth ideas of wit, pleasant mirth, and merriment, till it becomes difficult to trace the interfused relations of cause and effect, in our wondrously compounded union of mind and body. We have a few observations to press upon our tourist friends, in reference to 60. Thirst; as, from the ignorance of many about the real danger of inducing disease, and even death itself, by too sudden a cooling of the heated system, we desire to make ourself clearly understood on this important subject. First, in order to convince any wilful or heedless reader, if there be such, who may peruse these pages, (and for none more than for them are these "hints" written,) that the subject has been one of earnest, cautious entreaty from the lips of experience and enlightened reflection: we shall open our own remarks by quoting those of other people, qualified to express that opinion from actual experience, even more than ourselves. Col. Shaw says, as referring to a grave matter wherein the temptation to transgress is never stronger, because a gratification is associated with an urgent and imperative necessity,-"To prevent thirst in hot weather, nothing is better than to take a great quantity of fresh butter with your breakfast. Avoid drinking as you would poison; in short, drink as little as possible of anything, and do not give way to the first sensation of thirst. I should strongly recommend starting at daybreak, having previously taken breakfast." An old hand at walking remarks-" Be not always tempted by the crystal fountains you may meet with, being yourself warm. Should your thirst be overwhelming, take a mouthful; keep it for some seconds in the mouth, so as to warm it a little before swallowing. Never take ices except in brandy or other spirit, and then only being quite cool yourself." We shall use the liberty of completing the quotation, though it passes on to correlative points; because we have no especial head under which to reduce them precisely. Our continental friend M. M. goes on to urge-"Drink |