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Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 10: November, 1944 After some practical advice on games and sport, Lord Gray recommends gardening as a recreation which increases in richness and satisfaction the longer one engages in it. And gardening, along with fishing, helps to introduce us to one of Lord Gray's main themes, Nature, which he talks about under the idea of appreciating the beauty of the world. He says that our appreciation of this beauty may amount to no more than seeing what sort of weather it is day by day. He is a country man and says that, at least, it is always some sort of a day, in the country. But he, himself, has not stopped there, and his book is full of wise and poetic, and at the same time, acutely accurate observations of birds, fish, Woods and fields, the sea, and the stars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.