PAUL AND VIRGINIA» 3j 



they feated tliemfelves under a tree, exhaufted with 

 fatigue, hunger, and thirft. They had travelied 

 from the rifing of the Sun, more than five leapiues, 

 without having tafted food : Paul addreffed Fir^ 

 ginia thus : *' Sifter, it is pad mid-day, you are 

 *' hungry, you are thirfty ; we (hall find no re- 

 " frefhment here, let us again defcend the moun-* 

 ** tain, and requefl: the mafter of the Have to give 

 " us fomething to eat." — " Oh, no ! my friend," 

 replied rirginia, " he has terrified me too much 

 *' already : Do you not remember what mamma 

 *'' has often faid ; the bread of the wicked fills the 

 " mouth with gravel f'-^—^^ What fhall we do then?'* 

 faid Paul^ *' thefe trees produce only bad fruits î 

 '^ there is not fo much a« a tamarind, or a lemon, 

 *' to retreQi you." — *' God will have pity on us,'* 

 returned Virginia, " he hears the voices of the little 

 '* birds, which call to him for food." Scarcely 

 had file pronounced thefe words, when they heard 

 the bubblmg of a fountain, which fell from a neigh- 

 bouring rock : they immediately ran to it, and 

 after having quenched their thirfi^ with water, more 

 clear than the cry fiai, they gathered, and ate a few 

 of the crefles which grew upon it's banks. As 

 they were anxioufiy looking about, from fide to fide, 

 to fee if they could not find fome more fubfliantial 

 food, Virginia perceived, among the trees of the 

 forefl:, a young palm-tree. Ihe colewort!, which 

 is inclofed in the leaves that grow on the top of 

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