Country Life
Toww v. COUNTRY.
For racy comments on how to tell the accidental and essential differences between Town and Country you could not find a better source than the conversation of the London children who are enjoying, in satisfactory numbers, the benefits of the Country Holiday Fund. Every other village swarms with them ; and their speech is fresh and free. They unite for the most' part in a definite preference of country to town ; but omne ignolum pro magnifico. Their ignorance is colossal, and therefore they fear as well as admire. " The worst of these country places is, there are so many things to eat you," said one small boy ; and he put at the top of his list daddy-long-legs and earwigs. The same boy—and he came from countrified Islington—thought horse-chestnuts were wild apples, and haply good to eat. The wonder is that the children do not poison themselves, though after all poison berries are rare in England. Laburnum seeds, berries of bryony, deadly nightshade, and wild arum are almost the only actual dangers.
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