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gave us all the privileges of rusticity, which are fully as incompatible with a residence in a little town of Western America as with a residence in London. We lived on terms of primaeval intimacy with our cow, for if we lay down on our lawn she did not scruple to take a sniff at the book we were reading, but then she gave us her own sweet breath in return. The verge of the cool-looking forest that rose opposite our windows was so near, that we often used it as an extra drawing- room, and there was no one to wonder if we went out with no other preparation than our parasols, carrying books and work enough to while away a long summer day in the shade; the meadow that divided us from it was covered with a fine short grass, that continued for a little way under the trees, making a beautiful carpet, while sund

fruitless search, we decided on reposing awhile on the trunk of a fallen tree; being all considerably exhausted, the idea of sitting down on this tempting log was conceived and executed simultaneously b

y annoying us as much as possible in return; we were bit, we were stung, we were scratched; and when, at last, we succeeded in raising ourselves from the venerable ruin, we presented as woeful a spectacle as can we

ere we had entered it. Nothing was to be seen but multitudes of tall, slender, melancholy stems, as like as peas, and standing within a foot of each other. The ground, as far as the eye could reach (which certainly was not far), was covered with an unvaried bed of dried leaves; no trace, no track, no trail, as Mr. Cooper would call it, gave us a hint which way to turn; and having paused for a moment to meditate, we remembered that chance must decide for us at last, so we set forward, in no very good mood, to encounter new misfortunes. We walked about a quarter of a mile, and coming to a steep descent, we thought ourselves extremely fortunate, and began to scramble down, nothing doubting that it was the same we had scrambled up. In truth, nothing could be more like,

s again found power of utterance, we promised each other faithfully never to

reased by his bringing with him our eldest son, which was a happiness we had not hoped for. Our walks and our drives now became doubly interesting. The young men, fresh from a public school, found America so totally unlike all the nations with which their reading had made them acquainted, that it was indeed a new world to them. Had they visited Greece or Rome they would have encountered objects with whose images their

l to enquire at a little public-house at the bottom of the hill, if such a pair had been seen to pass. A woman, whose appearance more resembled a Covent Garden market-woman than any thing else I can remember, came out and answered my question with the most jovial good humour in the affirmative, and prepared to join us in our search. Her look, her voice, her manner, were so exceedingly coarse and vehement, that she almost frightened me; she passed her arm within mine, and to the inexpre

or as "that there lady, out by the Gulley, what is making dip-candles." Mr. Trollope was as constantly called "the old man," while draymen, butchers' boys, and the labourers on the canal were invariably denominated "them gentlemen;" nay, we once saw one of the most gentlemanlike men in Cincinnati introduce a fellow in dirty shirt sleeves, and all sorts

ms of fastening a door in Western America; I was told that it would be considered as an affront by the whole neighbourhood. I was thus expos

ce I have seen some of my acquaintance beset in the same way, without appearing at all distressed by it; they continued their employment or co

nk ye, how be you

, they would retain it for an hour together, without uttering another word; at length, rising abruptly, they would again shake

d I must talk to them. I will give the minutes of a conversation which I once set down after one of th

the old country? Ay-you'll

I shall

sland don't grow such dreadful fine corn as you se

no corn at

ds such awful stories in the papers of

wheat,

but I calculate the poor

nly much greater

ey do say, that if a

o scrape together a

omes down upon 'em,

't

er hearing of su

Your papers ben't like ourn, I reckon? N

eal of time in read

pend their time, but looking after their government, and watching that them f

ht be in more thorough repair, and your roads in

he freedom of a free-born American? And what does a broken zig-zag signify, comparable to knowing that the me

hen, that you all go to the li

father of a family should always be after liquor, but I do say that I'd rather have

le colour of the mulberry; the chesnut softens all with its frequent mass of delicate brown, and the sturdy oak carries its deep green into the very lap of winter. These tints are too bright for the landscape painter; the attempt to follow nature in an American autumn scene must be abortive. The colours are in reality extremely brilliant, but the medium through which they are seen increases the effect surprisingly. Of all the points i

thee, Jove!

by the pow'r

rd. I observed another phenomenon in the crescent moon of that region, the cause of which I less understood. That appearance which Shakespear describes as

mber on canvas; but even Cuyp's air cannot reach the lungs, and, therefore, can only give an idea of ha

he prettiest valleys,and worse still, were slaughtered beside the prettiest streams. Another evil threatened us from the same quarter, that was yet heavier. Our cottage had an ample piazza, (a luxury almost universal in the country houses of America),

As there were several gentlemen's houses in the neighbourhood,

wha

epeated, and expl

here a rich man's nose is more thought of than a poor man's mouth; but hogs be

g of France, but of the whole human family, as philosophers call us. The well disposed, those whose own feeling of justice would prevent their annoying others, will never complain of the restraints of the law. All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly; and were I a stout knight,