That is to say, if a man gets the habit of saying "I should have liked to have known more about it" instead of saying simply and sensibly, "I should have liked to know more about it," that man's disease is incurable.
Harris said that if the best writer in the world once got the slovenly habit of doubling up his "have's" he could never get rid of it while he lived.
We discussed everything we knew, during the first fifteen or twenty minutes, that morning, and then branched out into the glad, free, boundless realm of the things we were not certain about. It is no matter whether one talks wisdom or nonsense, the case is the same, the bulk of the enjoyment lies in the wagging of the gladsome jaw and the flapping of the sympathetic ear.Īnd what a motley variety of subjects a couple of people will casually rake over in the course of a day's tramp! There being no constraint, a change of subject is always in order, and so a body is not likely to keep pegging at a single topic until it grows tiresome. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. Now the true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. So we set the pedometer and then stretched away on an easy, regular stride, down through the cloven forest, drawing in the fragrant breath of the morning in deep refreshing draughts, and wishing we might never have anything to do forever but walk to Oppenau and keep on doing it and then doing it over again.
It was all the way down hill, and we had the loveliest summer weather for it. WE were satisfied that we could walk to Oppenau in one day, now that we were in practice so we set out next morning after breakfast determined to do it.
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