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About Sauntering"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks — who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word isbeautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and askedcharity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed,"There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land intheir walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there aresaunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sansterre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particularhome, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sitsstill in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense,is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking theshortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. Forevery walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth andreconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels". |
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