The Innocents on the Broads #247549

Dearly as Britons may love their country as a whole, they may yet have a greater love for the particular county of their birth, and doubtless in most cases prefer individuals emanating from and incidents appertaining to that particular county.<br><br>We may even go farther and assert that a certain district - the district of their birth - claims such a share of their love, that not even many years spent in a far more beautiful locality can alienate the charms of their early haunts.<br><br>Is there any wonder, then, that the writer looks upon "Broadland," his native district, as the Bostonians do their city when they call it the "hub of the Universe?" "Broadland" may not be the precise, mathematical centre of the world, yet in a very great measure it has become the centre of amusement, to which many thousands annually turn for a bright, happy, healthy holiday, such as probably few other districts in the British Isles can afford.<br><br>Who says, "Cock-a-doodle-do!" to this eulogy upon the "Lazy Lagoons?"