We go to the country because we are tired of the
town; and we hope to find there, not a second or third
rate reproduction of ways of life with which we are
wearily familiar, but something new and different,
— change, rest and quiet, refreshing communion with
Nature, and a mode of life less artificial than a city
existence must of necessity be. We wish, of course,
to find refinement of life and manners wherever we
go, but in the country the heart of man longs for
simplicity; alas! the longing is usually a vain one.
Few dwellers in the country have the common sense
of Shakspeare's Shepherd, who says: '' Those that are
good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the
country as the behavior of the country is most mock-
able at the court."

Manners do not need to be radically changed under
differing circumstances, but to be adapted properly
to time and place. Happy is the man whose manners

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fit his situation in life, — who can take a lower room,
if such be the change fate brings him, without loss of
dignity, and who can take a higher station without
any assumption of arrogance or pride.
