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Excerpt from Winter and Summer Outing by the Sea
Glorious, indeed, to the country folk at least, were those days of long ago. And the city Wight, no less than the country swain, was not averse to that form of summer outing. He loved the city and its busy hum the absence of those curious eyes and idle tongues characteristic of rural life. But he loved the seashore too, and there was no scene over which his eyes rested with greater pleasure than the face of a summer landscape by the sea. Hither he came to fish, to hunt, to bathe. His joy of youthful sport, in summer time, was to be borne on the breast of the ocean from a boy he wantoned with her breakers, and he became, as it were, a child of the sea. To him the roar of the ocean, no less than the music of the brook, or the voice of the winds and woods, was not a mere creation of the fancy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
