25/27 If you plan for to-morrow, plan a bit of pleasure with it; that's a long way better than expecting a headache. Eh? Sophia never could bear walking in the heat. I like it; and I think there are few things merrier than a sheep-shearing." "So poetic! So idyllic!" murmured Sophia, with mild sarcasm. Mr.Wordsworth would remember Pan and Arcadian shepherds playing on reedy pipes, and Chaldaean shepherds studying the stars, and those on Judaea's hills who heard the angels singing. |