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    bush ; there sits another on a grassy seat , lost in abstraction of meditation ; as full of sweet poesy is her soul , as is the air with balmy freshness : there is one stooping to examine with curious admiration the miniature forest which her fancy has found in a moss tuft , and wondering if those little scarlet-headed

    fungussprouts are not torches by which the beetles light up their supper halls : there is another , pencilling on her brain the elegant and picturesque trunks , slender arms , whiplike branches , and delicate foliage of a group of trees , and catching impressions of the moving lights and shadows which play about them , telling herself that she can make a good sketch from memory when she reaches home , or that she will come again , and have it from the life

    ;—another day ' s enjoyment laid up in the storehouse of her anticipation . Away , in distance , mellowed into the sweetness of a sweet sound ' s echo , now heard , now lost , a warbling voice is streaming out the spirit ' s cascade of joy ; all is so happy , that the very trees have a living sympathy with it , and participate in breathing being . But now call in the stragglers , call in the frolicksome , unchain the enchanted , halloo to the warbler , break the fixed

    muteness of the contemplative , and all gather in , with one look , one set of thoughts ; here is our hall , our tent , our refectory ; and here the viands . What ? First for seats and table . The smooth green turf within the enclosure of gorse , of which I aforetime spoke , for the latter ; and for seats , in ten minutes as many hands have collected moss sufficient to furnish the hall with more

    inviting sofas and easy chairs than ever were conjured up by the luxurious ingenuity of a Hope or a Beckford . Come , suspend your hats and bonnets to the swinging branches ; the strings will flutter as so many festival streamers ; throw shawls and kerchiefs on and among the gorses , yellow flowers , and heather : there ' s an eye-gladdening commingling of colours ! Sit or recline at your pleasure , —room for either or all . Ours is the genuine

    cooperative system , —each assists the other ; we have neither masters nor servants , but all are each , a regular levelling of ranks and ages ; we do not exclude the little ones till the big ones are accommodated , nor bid the juniors wait ' till their elders are served ; ' , nothing of that have we among us . We have utterly abjured the fag system , now and for ever ; we deny the right of the strong to press or oppress the weak , and we ever will deny it : we will walk and sit , eat , drink , talk , and breathe in perfect

    equality of kindness . Our table ia covered with damask , pure , clean , snow white ; remember , it must , it shall be so . Knives and forks spotless and speckless ; remember this too : we will have no make-shifts of what we do bring in the way of viand furniture : if a plate or dish be cracked or chipped in the carriage , away with it ! oyer the barrier it goes : our drinking glasses are crystal , clearer than any mirror , or green , like the overhanging foliage , and sharply conical , tapering to their stems in the finest

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    432 A Peep into Sherwood For&tU

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 432, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/50/