Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany
But war/c of some kind or other has become so necessary to an Englishman, that his very relaxation consists rather in the vicissitudes of labour, than in the total cessation from it. We cannot, like the Italians, sit from morning till night en joying the luxury of mere vacuity or the mild excitement of playing at dominoes. We must be up and doing. If our brain has been at work for nine months of the year, our idea of a holiday is to work our muscles for the remaining three.
It is not always easy, however, to find appropriate work for the muscles. Field sports are the best; but they do not come at exactly the right time, or they are unattainable.
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