Our Common Land

Probably Few Persons Who Have A Choice Of Holidays Select A Bank Holiday Which Falls In The Spring Or Summer As One On Which They Will Travel Or Stroll In The Country Unless Indeed They Live In Neighbourhoods Very Far Removed From Large Towns. Every Railway Station Is Crowded; Every Booking-Office Thronged; Every SeatNay All Standing RoomIs Occupied In Every Kind Of Public Conveyance; The Roads Leading Out Of London For Miles Are Crowded With Every Description Of VehicleVan Cart Chaise GigDrawn By Every Size And Sort Of Donkey Pony Or Horse; If It Be A Dusty Day A Great Dull Unbroken Choking Cloud Of Dust Hangs Over Every Line Of Road.