IN THE HIGHLANDS.
We never looked forward to a pleasure trip with so much misery as we did to our journey to the Hebrides. We wanted a holiday.
"Go to Scotland," suggested the editor of Harper's.
"Let us rather wander through unexplored France," we proposed, in a long letter, though we had already explored it for ourselves more than once.
"Scotland would be better," was the answer in a short note.
"But why not let us discover unknown Holland?" we asked, as if it had not been discovered a hundred times already.