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Towards the middle of September the exodus from the high 'Margs' takes place many returning sadly to Pindi and Sealkote others merely to Srinagar, while those who yearn after Bara Singh and Bear, decamp quietly for their selected nullahs, to be in readiness for the opening of the autumn season.
Spring is charming, the brilliant days only varied by frequent thunderstorms which, however, are almost invariable in keeping their pyrotechnics till about five in the afternoon. July and August are hot and steamy in the valley, and it is necessary to seek one of the cool "Margs" which form ideal camping-grounds on all the lofty mountain slopes which surround the valley.
There have been many picnics lately, the little glades or margs, which are frequent in the forest slopes, being ideal places of rendezvous for merrymakers on horse or foot. How small a thing will upset the best-laid plans of hospitality!
No empty sardine-tins, nor untidy scraps of paper, mar the clean and lonely margs or village camping-grounds. The happy wanderer, selecting a grassy dell or convenient shady tree with a clear spring or dancing rivulet near by, invokes the tiffin coolie, and if a duly watchful eye has been kept upon that incorrigible sluggard, in short space the contents of the basket deck the sward.
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