. The book of months . ;i»* ■■7- ?-t& THE BOOK OF MONTHS Four suits. Then for emergencies of the socialkind one must not be found defenceless, andsome sort of tailed apparatus must come. Fivesuits. Dress-clothes—six. Also there is excel-lent trout-fishing not far from Baireuth, and Ihave been particularly told to bring a rod. Thatentails some knickerbockers and a Norfolkjacket. Seven suits. At this point I paused. I was taking sevensuits in order to clothe my unworthy body for aspace of ten days in a Bavarian village. Yetwhere was the flaw? Of all things in the worldI hate to be away from home
. The book of months . ;i»* ■■7- ?-t& THE BOOK OF MONTHS Four suits. Then for emergencies of the socialkind one must not be found defenceless, andsome sort of tailed apparatus must come. Fivesuits. Dress-clothes—six. Also there is excel-lent trout-fishing not far from Baireuth, and Ihave been particularly told to bring a rod. Thatentails some knickerbockers and a Norfolkjacket. Seven suits. At this point I paused. I was taking sevensuits in order to clothe my unworthy body for aspace of ten days in a Bavarian village. Yetwhere was the flaw? Of all things in the worldI hate to be away from home and wanting some-thing which I have forgotten to take and—whichis worse—decided not to take. Time was when itwas so simple to put in that article; but theopportunity is mine no longer, and I sigh for theundenuded wardrobes. I scorn to reproducemore of these indecisions—I would sooner repro-duce French as spoken in the hot bath—and itwill suffice to say that, having spent hours which188 \ - r xh^ U^^. AUGUST will never return in process of careful selection,1 eventually discarded selection altogether andfilled all the portmanteaus I possess. However,in the future I shall waste no more time in thin!ing what I shall want on short journeys, for Iknow I shall end in taking all I have, and itsaves trouble to begin with that. I do not know whether we are all descendedfrom gypsies, but certainly in most people somtthing of the instinct which loves to wander, tomake a journey merely for the joy of going,survives. True it is that punctual trains (theSoutheastern, however, has a great deal of admirable romance and uncertainty about it) andwell-appointed steamboats, which leave stontjettied ports at regular and ascertainable times,have taken much of the unknown from travel,and so robbed this instinct of its fruition, butthey cannot quite starve it. Even though youtravel in a Pullman car and sit on plush with189 ^-4
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