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fashionable class who fancy themselves lov- 

 ers of Nature, while in fact they are merely 

 admirers, more or less sincere, of fine scen- 

 ery. Not that anything is too beautiful for 

 our rambler's appreciation : he has an eye 

 for the best that earth and heaven can offer ; 

 he knows the exhilaration of far-reaching 

 prospects ; but he is not dependent upon 

 Buch extraordinary favors of Providence. 

 He has no occasion to run hither and 

 thither in search pf new and strange sights. 

 The old familiar pastures ; the bushy lane, 

 in which his feet have loitered year after 

 year, ever since they began to go alone ; an 

 unfrequented road ; a wooded slope, or a 

 mossy glen ; the brook of his boyish memo- 

 ries; if need be, nothing but a clump of 

 trees or a grassy meadow, these are 

 enough for his pleasure. Fortunate man ! 

 Who should be happy, if not he ? Out of 

 his own doorway he steps at will into the 

 Elysian fields. 



