Excerpt from The Traveller's JoyOr should your passing be at the noontide, then stay and rest awhile in the cool parlour, and mine host will bring you fruit from the garden. You may dine like a monk at a festival, if simplicity be your aim, and for a drink - well, William Hodges makes his own cider, and he is proud to tell you there is none better.But if you wish to keep summer in manner inimitable, go to that wild south country where the region of oak and pine, birch and bracken, sand stone and scattered commons, breaks into sunny meadows and rich pastures just under the South Downs, and seek there that sign which looks both ways of the road. Then stay at that inn of good omen all the summer long, and I shall wonder if you do not desire to stay all the winter too.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.