»…out during suitable weather in the springtime, morning after morning, by 4.30 a.m. Men who do not rise early miss much, for the sweetness of many days is all unfolded in the early morning, when the dewdrops are glistening on the grass, and the bloom-laden hedgerows are giving forth their scents; while blackbirds, thrushes, larks, chaffinches, and numerous other songsters vie with each other in giving voice to the joy within them. These are things we enjoy over and over again and remember with pleasure, and yet by nine o’clock we are in the centre and bustle of London town… »