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tree, which prefently fell with a terrible crafli. 

 The fire likewife affifted him in peeling off from 

 the colewort it's long, ligneous, and prickly leaves. 

 Firginia and he ate a part of this cabbage raWj 

 and the other part drelTed upon the aflîe?, and 

 found them equally favoury. They enjoyed this 

 frugal repaft with the higheft fatisfaélionj from the 

 recolledion of the good adion which they had 

 performed in the morning ; but their joy was 

 greatly damped, by the uneafmefs, which they had 

 not a doubt their long abfence muft have occa- 

 lioned to their parents. Virginia recurred fre- 

 quently to this fubjecl, while Paul, who now felt 

 his ftrength reftored, affured her, that it would not 

 be long before they got home, to quiet the anxiety 

 of their mothers. 



After dinner, they found themfelves much em- 

 barraffed, for they had no longer a guide to direft 

 them homewards. Paulj who was difconcerted at 

 nothing, faid to Firginia, " Our cottage lo )ks to- 

 " ward the noon-day Sun, we muft, therefore, pafs 

 " as we did this morning, over that mountain 

 '* which you fee below, with it's three peaks. 

 " Come, let us walk on, my friend." This moun- 

 tain is called that of the Three Paps *, becaufe it's 



* There are many mountains, the fummits of which are 

 rounded into the form of a woman's breaft, and bear that name 

 in all languages. They are, indeed, real paps ; for from them 



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