CHAPTER IV. 



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' Oh speak the joy ! ye whom the sudden tear 

 Surprises often, while you look around, 

 And nothing strikes your eye but sights of bliss; 

 An elegant sufficiency, content, 

 Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 

 Ease and alternate labour, useful life, 

 Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven." 



— Thomson. 



" He (Cowper) had at one time five rabbits, three hares, two guinea- 

 pigs, a magpie, a jay, and a starling; besides two goldfinches, two canary- 

 birds, and two dogs. It is amazing how the three hares can find room 

 to gambol and frolic (as they certainly do) in his small parlour. I forgot 

 to enumerate a squirrel, which used to play with one of the hares con- 

 tinually."— Lady Hesketh. 



