64 AN AMERICA^ FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



the shafts a poor little rat of a thing, with thi meekest ex 

 pression you can conceive of. It is just as mu^h as he can 

 stagger along with, and the boy jumps off to relieve no ! 

 the young satan has gone to his head and is cudgelling him. 

 The poor little donkey winks and turns his head, and drops 

 his ears, and nearly falls down. The boy stops (probably a 

 policeman heaves in sight) and takes his seat on the shaft 

 again, and the donkey reels on. The man aft has continued 

 his smoking all the while, without taking any notice of the 

 delay. As I write, there goes by another a very handsome, 

 large fat one, drawing a market cart, with a pretty country 

 girl among the hampers driving. 



