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gun to shoot tbha cate wheat -they -grow , oianleiXMis , teaxingntite mar / of aiighti wntkijillnttuit isinfejarmoaioudJ . iicv ; :, r ; i- ,,: Un uds ?«> ti ; s Ccwbrt ^ quslreadmy I ibegryour pardon ; that impudent £ Slow * wiiH his sporting pretences * whom I met on the Glapbanf * stage three weeks > ago * would not from my memory * But I wish you * would have let me go on or continue going off at that cockriay . Stopping me is tis awkward to my sensations as when you checkr the swing ; there , the white head in the sun , and now the JJttie heels here in the shade , and a chirrup swinging to and fro in * companionship with the hobby ; and now that jolt , and the little fellow is nearly thrown on his face among the nettles—^ -1 mea n
the last word as a simile , and find myself nettled by the critics , who are calling ' question , question , ' while you only , Mr . Bditer > are liberal of voice , and bid me 'go on , go on . ' Well , sport ft > r the country is , to rise with the sun , to empty the scent-bottles of your toilet , and -make them depositories of a cottage wall ^ rose , presented with ' good morrow * from little rosy-cheek ; or if t \ ie fair hand have culled the roses of so many and ten summers , then raise thy wish to virtue , she may be a worthy wife , for " . «;* but you are above a farmer ' s daughter : then pray pass on and keep the flower , and remember that ' Solomon ia all his glory was not arrayed like one of these ; ' and it was a gift from a maiden ' s hand , ( or from any hand , if you are called to « the
wonders Jof its mechanism and the lecture of Sir Charles Bell ;) and make that a text on the rights of humanity ; or go on without a thought to the ' Hand and Flower , ' and drink deeply of mine host ' s home-brewed , if you have not been by the way deeply intoxicated with the every-day sights and sounds of * country walk at dawn ; the little children up three hours beyond the
going-out of father and the elder lads to plough or reapingn . tjf you have never before seen a joy sunning the countenance / look there , —the one who speaks , how freely part the pearly teethncow ! how full the voice comes , without a hint that the lungs procured a double gulp of pure air with that effort ! And then the laughera —see ! the quiet cheek as still as the sky before dawn ; aad now
—travel not to witness a glorious sunrise , it is here ; it is gone . Another word . See ! again that countenance , without anefforty'i all joy , bright as happiness , and easy as innocence . ' Verjjr ftino * pent amusement , ' quoth my reader , repeating * the question , ' what is to do in the country ? ' Do something , or do not . wander from the nothing-doing of town . If you can use the pencil , or touch
the flute , or tell a story , you will have enough to do , unlea * you would keep happy neighbour * from you , for , you will be in request wherever these accomplishments are , beyond the leisure of , yotjr company » But-cricket ^ or bopb , or quoil ^ are the cLbw ^ sicm \ sfiortj » of the green , a * 4 thus , wlule . wprktalues his newt ^ tM * , and perhaps shows * 1 ro thd ( setting , suu i& diffebentl cogtuAie fr 4 wn tljat . wpraiiitjhiarJeingvyo ^ wM Uarn th&Vthtyare rfwa ^ B dmtty
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/29/
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