An English Landscape

There we were in the midst of it. The country, and such a country, green, dripliii.r, glistening, gorgeous! We uuibsfrioken by its loveliuess, as fiuna he bleak April and bare boughs " a hud ft :it home broke upon us Unit English Iny- -sunny, leal'y, blooming May - in u i',)rj!; ii lane; with hed; bs, Euglisti -. hawthoin hei ges, I in blossom; y oíd farmhouses quaint stables nd haysttieks ; the old ehuiuU spire over he distant trees ; tlit; mild sun beaming hrough the watury atuiosphero, and all o quiet, the only sounds i!.e lium ot' bees nd the cnsp grttbS teanng ot' silkenkiniied, real, unimported Hereford cuws, the hedge. No longer exeited by aring to tbink that wo should see it as v,i diecussed the Bohema round the old loroefire; no louger cheering ourselvea vithin thu stupid, tedious sliip ; no moro forgetful of it in the bewilderment f tlio busy town ; but there we were, ight in tho midst of it ! Long time ilüiit, and then spcaking softly, as it' it veru onchantmput indeed, we gazed ïpon it and breathed it - never to bo forgotten ! At length we walked on, rapidly, but 'requently stopping, one side and the ther, like ohildren in a garden ; hodges tí 11, with delicious fragtanüfi on each idu of us, and on, as far as we can see, ;ruo farni-fencing hfdges; nol hing trim, ïice, and ainateur-likö, but the vcrdure jrokcn, tufty, low and natural. They ire set on i ridge of earth, thrown out lom a ditoh behiiid thcm, whioh raises nd strengtheus them as a fence. They u-e nearly all hawthorn, which is now overed in patches, as if aftor a sliht 'all of snow, with clusters of whito or )ink blossoms over its liglit grecui i'olige. Ilere and there a holly bush, with lunches of searlut berries and a few othr shrubs, mingle with it. A cart meets iS - a real heavy, big wheeled English art ; and Knglish horscs - real,, big, haggy-hoofed, Bleek, heavy English cart i ; and a carter - a rual apple faced, mock-froeked, red headed, wool inatted, irter-brecchos, stockings, hob-nailed hoes, and " Gee up, Bobbin," English arter. Little birds hop along in the oad before us ; and we gnesa at their uinifcH, first of all seleoting one to be obin redbreast. We study tha flowers inder the hedge, and determine them uothing elso but primroses and butterups. Throngh the gates we admire the ;reat, fat, clean licked, contented-faued ows and large white, long-wooled sbeep. What else was theie ' I cannot romemier ; but there was that, altogether, hat made us forget our fatigue, disreard the rain, thoughtless of tiie way we viro going' - serious, happy and grateful. And this exoitemeut contmued tor uiany [ays. - American Traveler's LMtr.