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    many eggs cut laterally , painted green , and set up on their bases . The sea has been in a boil here , and there are some of the huge bubbles that have taken a stubborn freak into their heads , to consolidate ; but there is much beauty and good-nature in the freak .,

    and so greater ^ beautied and better nature indulged them in it , and garlanded them over with her most gladdening and refreshing green . Green , green , green every where ; light , mellow , or deep , as the grass , grain , and groves , and the sun ' s laugh , and their own shadows , present it in diversity to the eye ; all gradations of green ; and all looks as fresh as if the rain had just washed it over ; and the speckled blue sky looks down upon it with serenity of blessing ; and the loveliness which that sky canopies throws back , with its thankfulness , a blessing and a song . This is the Island of the Golden Fruit , and it is not guarded by < Hesper ,

    the dragon , and sisters three : '—* He with the silver hair and silver eye ;' for , look , yonder they come ! boats— -one , two , three , five , a dozen ! all laden up to the gunwales with the juicy balls . Now , don ' t you be cockneyish in your selection : those deep-coloured ones are not the thing ; not half so luscious as those with one side of their cheeks tinged with green just ebbing into yellow ; you may drain them and munch them , rind and all ; so much the better ; the pungent bitter corrects the effect of too free indulgence ., to which you are prone , after a sea voyage : they are fresh from the tree , and are quite as ripe as the others were when they were gathered . There is no suspicion upon them ; a taint , from which the others are not free ; for , observe , they lie too orderly , having been packed for , but failed to find , an earlier market . Have no trade with them : and of those lighter , but truer fellows , an old clasp-knife will purchase a pursers broad

    bdg full to choaking . What a perfume fore and aft , and atween decks ! The whole ship , even to the cable-tier , from forehold to breiul-room , is all orange ! Suck , suck ; squeeze , squeeze , from stem to stern , and orange-peel flying in yellow showers through the ports . Eat away : good oranges are fruit on which you can neither cloy nor surfeit ; and here you have them good . Some hundreds of cases were taken on board , to be served out

    gratuitously , daily , to the ship ' s company , as an antiseptic , when salt junk and rusty pork made such qualification valuable ; and with these , and a score of diminutive bullocks , as fat as greyhounds in a consumption , for the fleet , we weighed , and steered for Cadiz , with nothing but cloudless sky , fair breeze , and rippling sea , till the snow-white walls and towers of the city , the tall masts of the enemies' fleets lying in the harbour , and the twelve noble and beautiful ships of the line of our own , rose upon us like faint flashes of light , and then grew more distinct and substantial . And what a sig ht it was when the whole magnificence of the scene was unfolded—laid out to the gaae ! when , at the

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    A ittobiography of Pel . Verjuice * 31 $

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/59/