98 AUGUST. 



" Fair Ceres calls to join her jocund train, 



Pours plenty in our laps, and bids us laugh at pain ; 

 Sweet Goddess, we are thine, and smile, and laugh like thee, 

 Crown'd with thy garlands, happy, rich, and free." 



We are the happiest of the human race, 

 that want but little, and have all the world 

 affords ; well may our bard exclaim, 



" O, the pleasure of the plains, 



Happy nymphs, and happy swains !" 



But stay, hitherto our recreation has been 

 selfish, confined entirely to the male creation ; 

 yet there is vast scope for the enjoyment and 

 participation of the other sex, without the toil 

 or stratagems, as shall be seen. About noon on 

 a fine day, how delightful to rest while the sun 

 is in meridian, and be joined by your fair 

 partner to lunch under the shade of some wide- 

 spreading elm, and afterwards pencil the sur- 

 rounding scenery ! What charming views such 

 opportunities afford ; a world of vast discovery, 

 which, but for our enthusiasm, would lack the 



