A Midsummer Walk
HE less preparation and planning there is for a walk, the sweeter the walk. The most delightful walk I ever took just "happened." It was one mid-summer-night in Scotland, where, as some of you may remember, the darkness at that time of year doesn’t last very long. I was an undergraduate, and having grown weary, about nine o’clock in the evening, of working fpr some stupid examination, determined to go out and not come back again until I felt like going to bed. As luck would have it, I fell in with another undergraduate equally disposed to idle out the day. We had a bit of food together-and I can tell you, even at this distance of time, what the food was. Salmon mayonnaise; real salmon, mind you, out of the River Tay or the River Tweed, washed down, maybe, with a pint of something cool. And then we started to walk. We weren’t going anywhere in particular, but we walked that midsummer-night through, and, about five in the morning, finding ourselves, again as luck would have it, outside a friend’s house in the country, we threw stones at his bedroom window till he woke and let us in and gave us break-
fast.
-(Professor
J. Y. T.
Greig
"The Vicious Prac-
tice of Hiking," 2Y A, December 8).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 78, 20 December 1940, Page 5
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222A Midsummer Walk New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 78, 20 December 1940, Page 5
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