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 object 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 doggerel 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, Nec est morti Vita prona." : Which, being rendered into English, will run thus, making allowance for our modern confusion of mealtimes : "Rise you at five who have the power; Breakfast and lunch at nine's good hour; Dine at five's revolving magic; So shall death by sickness tragic, Ne'er cut short life's little span, Who by nine sleeps if he can." Thus, then, we have got our chart to steer by; and, though an adage of olden time, it will hold good nowa-days-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 as one of them 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-andbutter, and an assortment of fish, flesh, 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 fagend of the day, say after dinner, as a diluent, of aromatic and grateful nature. Dr. E. Smith, in his recent work on health and disease, commends a solid breakfast, a lunch-dinner at noon, and a second dinner or dinner-tea early in the evening, as being an arrangement most suitable to the diurnal cyclical changes of the human body. A sandwich composed of thin bread-and-butter and sliced hard-boiled egg is an excellent interim refreshment, and preferable to ham, or other highly savoury form, which induces thirst. 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 goodis 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 they 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 vivifying 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 im portant 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. Colonel 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 day-break, 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. Thus then our continental friend M. M. goes on to urge-" Drink not anything cold, being hot. Pull not off your clothes when in perspiration, neither sit in draughts of air nor upon moist turf or moss; but rather, if you must take liquid, make use of a drop of real eau de vie (brandy) or other spirit, because, when the whole body is excessively heated, any cold beverage suddenly gulped down in the eagerness of gratifying thirst too rapidly cools down the blood, and checks dangerously the circulation! See that the food you take be fresh, and not greasy" (that is, not bad or old.) I shall be excused in presenting one additional quotation in reference to the effects of water as applied to the skin in allaying thirst, borrowed from the narrative of the gallant officer before mentioned :-"The heat was dreadful, and the enemy had cut the ropes of the different wells. I had learned, from my walking experience, that, to thirsty men, drinking water only gives momentary relief, but that if the legs are wetted, the relief, though not at first apparent, positively destroys the pain of thirst. Seeing a muddy pool at the bottom of one of the hills, by which we must pass to attack the convent of Bostillo, I halted for a few minutes, making the men wet themselves from the knees downwards." Against this plan an objection has been pointed out, based upon the fear of danger from plunging the legs in water, or wetting them. A writer so looking at it has recommended the method of rinsing the mouth with cold spring water, and the use of a soft tooth-brush, as refreshing and quenching to the thirst, without the risk of evils attending the swallowing part of the business. We can only say, that this rinsing is very good and unexceptionable where and when practicable only that where the rinsing can be put in practice, the temptation to the swallowing presents itself; and we think there are few minds strong enough to resist an involuntary, though intentionally moderate, pull at a glass of sparkling cold spring water, under the exciting urgency of thirst, if raised to the lips once and |