Excerpt from The Country Day by Day Preface pass and between terminus and terminus you seem to have seen many golden weeks of summer squan dered before your eyes. Summer's roses fall before their buds are burst, and the elder bears berries almost before it blooms in a bird's-eye view of different British latitudes.* abut these double variations from calendar routine, caused partly by vagaries of the season and partly by geographical distance, balance each other to this extent, that somewhere in Britain the points of time and place must almost always be coincident and the average event of the average season must recur somewhere on the average day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at 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.