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Title: Days Off
And Other Digressions

Author: Henry Van Dyke

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DAYS OFF

And Other Digressions

by

HENRY VAN DYKE

[Illustration: Our canoes go with the river, but no longer easily or
lazily.]

I do not count the hours I spend
In wandering by the sea;
The forest is my loyal friend,
Like God it useth me:

Or on the mountain-crest sublime,
Or down the oaken glade,
O what have I to do with Time?
For this the day was made.

--RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Illustrated

New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
MDCCCCVII

Copyright, 1907, by Charles Scribner's Sons

Printed in October, 1907
Reprinted in November, 1907
Reprinted in December, 1907

To
MY FRIEND AND NEIGHBOUR
GROVER CLEVELAND
WHOSE YEARS OF GREAT WORK
AS A STATESMAN
HAVE BEEN CHEERED BY DAYS OF GOOD PLAY
AS A FISHERMAN
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
WITH WARM AND DEEP REGARDS

Avalon,
July 10th, 1907.

CONTENTS

I. _Days Off_ 1

II. _A Holiday in a Vacation_ 23

III. _His Other Engagement_ 57

IV. _Books that I Loved as a Boy_ 101

V. _Among the Quantock Hills_ 117