Chapter 7: VI

VI Kingston—Instructive remarks on early English history—Instructive observations on carved oak and life in general—Sad case of Stivvings, junior—Musings on antiquity—I forget that I am steering—Interesting result—Hampton Court Maze—Harris as a guide. It was a glorious morning, late spring or early summer, as you care to take it, when the dainty sheen of grass and leaf is blushing to a deeper green; and the year seems like a fair young maid, trembling with strange, wakening pulses…