4. Thou young domestic dove! (He'll have that jug off with another shove!) (He'll climb upon the table, that's his plan!) Thou enviable being! No storms, no clouds, in thy blue sky foreseeing, 5. Toss the light ball-bestride the stick, 6. (I knew so many cakes would make him sick!) (He's got the scissors, snipping at your gown.) Thou pretty opening rose! (Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nose!) I can not write unless he's sent above!) 83. THE MISER. THOMAS HOOD Lovegold. Where have you been? I have wanted an hour. James. Whom do you want, sir,-your coachman or your cook? for I am both one and t'other. Love. I want my cook. 'Hy men è' al, relating to marriage. E pit' o me, an abridgment; a small copy.—3 Buoyant (bwáî' ant), light; bearing up.--Grotesque (gro těsk'), wildly formed; laughable; odd. James. I thought, indeed, it was not your coachman; for you have had no great occasion for him since your last pair of horses were starved; but your cook, sir, shall wait upon you in an in(Puts off his coachman's great-coat, and appears as a cook.) Now, sir, I am ready for your commands. stant. Love. I am engaged this evening to give a supper. James. A supper, sir! I have not heard the word this half year; a dinner, indeed, now and then; but for a supper I'm almost afraid, for want of practice, my hand is out. Love. Leave off your saucy jesting, and see that you provide a good supper. James. That may be done with a good deal of money, sir. Love. Is the mischief in you? Always money! Can you say nothing else but money, money, money? My children, my servants, my relations, can pronounce nothing but money. James. Well, sir; but how many will there be at table? Love. About eight or ten; but I will have a supper dressed but for eight; for if there be enough for eight, there is enough for ten. James. Suppose, sir, at one end, a handsome soup; at the other, a fine Westphalia' ham and chickens; on one side, a fillet' of veal; on the other, a turkey, or rather a bustard, which may be had for about a guinea Love. Zounds! is the fellow providing an entertainment for my lord mayor and the court of aldermen ? James. Then a ragout Love. I'll have no ragout. Would you burst the good people, you dog? James. Then pray, sir, say what will you have? Love. Why, see and provide something to cloy their stomachs let there be two good dishes of thin soup; a large suetpudding; some dainty, fat pork-pie, very fat; a fine, small lean 1 Westphalia (West få' le a), a province of Prussia in which horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs are numerous, and the last named furnish the celebrated Westphalian hams.-2 Fil' let, the fleshy part of the thigh. —3 Bůs' tard, a large bird.—'Guin' ea, a former English gold coin, worth somewhat more than five dollars.- Ragout (rå gå′) a highly seasoned dish or food Cloy, to overload; to glut; to satisfy; to fill to loathing. breast of mutton, and a large dish with two artichokes. There; that's plenty and variety. James. Oh, dear Love. Plenty and variety. James. But, sir, you must have some poultry.' Love. No; I'll have none. James. Indeed, sir, you should. Love. Well, then,—kill the old hen, for she has done laying. James. Mercy! sir, how the folks will talk of it; indeed, people say enough of you already. Love. Eh! why, what do the people say, pray? James. Oh, sir, if I could be assured you would not be angry. Love. Not at all; for I'm always glad to hear what the world says of me. James. Why, sir, since you will have it, then, they make a jest of you everywhere; nay, of your servants, on your account. One says, you pick a quarrel with them quarterly, in order to find an excuse to pay them no wages. Love. Poh! poh! James. Another says, you were taken one night stealing your own oats from your own horses. Love. That must be a lie; for I never allow them any. James. In a word, you are the by-word everywhere; and you are never mentioned, but by the names of covetous, stingy, scraping, old Love. Get along, you impudent villain ! IN you HENRY FIELDING. 84. MOUNT VERNON IN 1759. 2 his letter from Mount Vernon, Washington writes: "I am now, I believe, fixed in this seat, with an agreeable partner, for life, and I hope to find more happiness in retirement, than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world." 1 Poul' try, fowls; hens; geese; turkeys, &c.-2 Mount Ver' non, Virginia, the former residence of Washington, on the west side of the Potomac, eight miles below Alexandria. It contains the mansion and tomb of the "Father of his Country." 2. This was no Utopian' dream, transiently indulged amid the charms of novelty. It was a deliberate purpose with him, the result of innate and enduring inclination. Throughout the whole course of his career, agricultural life appears to have been his beau ideal of existence, which haunted his thoughts even amid the stern duties of the field, and to which he recurred with unflagging interest, whenever enabled to indulge his natural bias." 3. Mount Vernon was his harbor of repose, where he repeatedly furled his sail, and fancied himself anchored for life. No impulse of ambition tempted him thence; nothing but the call of his country, and his devotion to the public good. The place was endeared to him by the remembrance of his brother Lawrence, and of the happy days he had passed here, with that brother, in boyhood; but it was a delightful place in itself, and well calculated to inspire the rural feeling. 4. The mansion was beautifully situated on a swelling height, crowned with wood, and commanding a magnificent view up and down the Potomac. The grounds immediately about it were laid out somewhat in the English taste. The estate was apportioned into separate farms, devoted to different kinds of culture, each having its allotted laborers. Much, however, was still covered with wild-woods, seamed with deep dells and runs of water, and indented with inlets-haunts of deer, and lurkingplaces of foxes. 9 5. The whole woody region along the Potomac, from Mount Vernon to Belvoir, and far beyond, with its range of forests and hills, and picturesque promontories, afforded sport of various kinds, and was a noble hunting-ground. Washington had hunted through it with old Lord Fairfax in his stripling' days: 1 1 U to'pi an, ideal; fanciful; having no real existence. Utopia is a name given by Sir Thomas More to a fancied island, in which every thing was perfection. The term is derived from two Greek words, meaning "no place."-Transiently (trån' shent li), for a short time; soon passing away. In nåte', born in a person.- Beau ideal (bỏ i dè' al), ideal beauty; a model of excellence in the mind or fancy.- Bl' as, inclination. Mag nifi cent, imposing; grand in appearanee.—' Culture (kůlt' yer), cultivation; manner of improving.- Picturesque (piktyer sk'), presenting that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture. Prom' on to ries, high lands extending into the sea; headlands.-10 10 Strip' ling, boyish. we do not wonder that his feelings throughout life incessantly reverted to it. 6. "No estate in United America," observes he, in one of his letters, "is more pleasantly situated. In a high and healthy country; in a latitude between the extremes of heat and cold; on one of the finest rivers in the world,-a river well stocked with various kinds of fish, at all seasons of the year, and in the spring with shad, herring, bass, carp, sturgeon, &c., in great abundance. The borders of the estate are washed by more than ten miles of tide'-water; several valuable fisheries appertain2 to it: the whole shore, in fact, is one entire fishery." WASHINGTON IRVING. 1. 85. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. air, Recall the camp, and spread before mine eyc 3. The mason flings his glittering trowel by, And leaves behind the pale and weeping few; 4. Lo, all the air is throbbing to the drum; In every highway sounds the shrilly fife; Where hurried banners lead the way to strife. 5. Though rude the music, and the arms are rude, Tide, the flowing of the sea.- 2 Ap per tåin', belong.- Fumes, vapors; smoke. Mot' ley, made up of various kinds of colors. 4 |