low over; "people pretend not to understand it, John; but you know as well as I do what it is. How could I ever live,

wo, from the downright emptiness of the air. But, my dear fellow, I found out some places, where the air was as nourishing, every bit, as it is at our works on an over-time day. Bubbly, I contrived to bilk the doctor, by g

hically describes it,-in the sweet fragrancy of home. Mr. Upmore, the air is never empty at any fashionable seaside place; and for the sake of your dear wife, and your wonderfully interesting boy, who is a dea

yourself scarce just now, will fetch you a pound, for every penny you have to spend. An old friend of mine is well up the back-stairs; and although he could never do a stroke for me-for some reason, which he explains much better than I can understand it-he whispered to me, last night, 'keep in with the gentleman, who boils higher up the Lane than you do. H

He had passed through a good deal of emotion lately, having been not only toasted largely, wherever he appeared with his purse in his pocket, and visited with post-cards more than once (from pe

the holidays now, and these words of my father's made me stare a little; "you know what I am, John,-a humble Briton, who thinks for himself, and sticks to it. Business is

nd now by repulse of the Rads, you have g

ng bad hats all of them. You are welcome to your share, if y

tics-the point is to settle where to go to, and I think Mrs. Upmor

with a bottle of cherry-brandy in her hand; "Bucephalus is so bigoted. But I lo

to go to bed again, while they are catching fish enough for your breakfast, prawns, and lobsters, and a sole with egg and breadcrumbs, and perhaps (if they are lucky) just a salmon-collop-ah, that is what I call seaside! And then, you lounge about, and see fine ladies jumping up and down, as the white waves knock them; and

is description; "why, it must be thirty years since I saw the sea. Ah, how we go

have not ever felt it your very first duty, to take your dear wife, and your Tommy, to the sea? Whatever should we do, without the sea? A great part of our commerce comes over it, and my Johnny can

lied dear mother; "and what is

or it is on the east coast. I'm very partial to Brighton myself, not being so exclusive as Mrs. W. about

r. Windsor, or perhaps co

come over it, in fine weather, by the time the upper classes are looking about. But I won't pretend to speak positive, because I never got up to

m not sure, that I should have thought of tha

have made yourself famous, Mr. Upmore, with my husband to stan

the counties in my head. Happystowe-on-Sea is the name of it; none of your blessed sewers there. I know a man who boils there, twice a week; he would let you in as a visitor, of course, and you would get the nourishment of his air. Barlow his name is, Billy

not only not to admit any shadow of fraud, into our own transactions, but

the long run, does it? However," continued my father, "if I should by any chance be down that way, I might like to look

re in the trade, if you wear your blue coat, and brass buttons, the one that makes the boys call you 'the Admiral.' And by the sea-

oing me a good turn, as early as they can. We will get away before those unprincipled Rads can serve their skulking summons. That Joe Cowl means to get up to-morrow, after shamming to be dead for a fortnight,-a Conservative sweep would have cured his cold, by stopping up a

es on, and Grip sitting up in front, and the tilt hanging down, as if by accident, over the third hoop from the back, so that nobody could tell that we had got a bit of luggage. And we jogged along up the Lane first towards Hampstead, so that all the neighbours thought we were going

declared that she understood things best; and there was no chance of getting at the other window, because four people put a cloth along their knees, and went on eating, for leagues, and hours. So my father went to sleep, and I tried to get peeps (behind dear mother's bonnet) of the far world flying by. With all my heart I longed to see the sea, of which I had heard so many things, wonderful, terrible, and enchanting. My mother ha

all it the sea, because you can't see it. Or if you do, you can't see anything else. I would

hould come away, even without any summons against him. His appetite was queer, and h

e with me now; and I call

anded with your mone

Company provided for dogs on their travels, and expressed his grief in a howl, that out-howled the engine. His chest was c

s from the genuine Happystowe) pulled up, in a ring of newly planted trees, and in front of a porch with square pillars to it. "Tommy, look sharp, and count all our boxes in. Put them down in L

had heard Mrs. Windsor use; "as if a few pounds made any differen

, Mrs. Roaker,-if it isn't going on for seven o'clock! And nothing all the way, but hard boiled eggs, and a cold duck, and ham sandwiches. I ne

dy, who understood things; "and the time will natur

of fried soles, and a bit of roast mutton, hot from the fire, and

n. "We have not seen the sea yet, Mrs. Roaker, to our certain knowledge. You must not suppose us to be any sort of Cockneys; and indeed we live quite ou

t I can't stand any more of your plague about the sea. Find somebody to show you where it is; or you ought to find it out, by the row it makes. I hear a

out, after running all the way from the station, for any dog anxious to insult him; and as soon as he came, and made a jump at me, we