Vv.) HARRY’S DREAM. 239

of disgust towards the unfriendly umpire who had so
materially contributed to the untoward result. Being
of a warm temperament, in which he closely resembled
the day, Harry’s irritation was increased by the
‘ chaff’ of one or two of the Prye boys, and became at
last so great that he could face it no longer. No
doubt it was weak and foolish of him, but so it was ;
and as the match was over and there was no occasion
for him to stay any longer on the ground, he slipped
away from the busy crowd on the green into his
father’s park hard by.

Squire Sanderson had a handsome mansion and a
beautiful park, in which much of Harry’s and his
brother’s leisure time was passed, and which was
certainly a first-rate place for a boy or anybody else
to pass his leisure time in, if he had the opportunity.
Like some other English parks, it was tolerably full
of oak-trees and fern, and the combination of these
two things would go far to make beautiful, at least in
the summer time, a place which was otherwise flat and
ugly. This, however, was not the case with Northwell
Park. The oak-trees and fern only added to the at-
tractions of scenery which would have been lovely
without either. The ground was tossed about in
beautiful undulations; the lake, and also several
smaller ponds, varied the scenery, and the park
abounded with picturesque views and bits of land-
scape which would have been delic#ous to the eye of
an artist, or in fact to the eye of anybody else who
had an atom of taste. :

But its chief beauty were the two large woods
which bounded it on either side: they were such