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moreover the subject of landscapes, I think, not 

 of either kings or beggars, that was under dis- 

 cussion ? But that is the sort of thing that is 

 always happening ! Of all the unsatisfactory 

 stock to keep, ideas are in my experience the 

 most unsatisfactory ; equally whether they are 

 winged, or entirely wingless ones. As for a 

 diary which, to be of the slightest use, ought to 

 act as a kind of crow-boy, or goose-girl, to them, 

 and keep them in order on the contrary it seems 

 merely to follow their waddlings and gyrations 

 with the most foolish, and unnecessary submissive- 

 ness. The result is that one starts intending to 

 fill a page with one subject, and before one has 

 got very far one discovers that in reality one is 

 rilling it up with quite another! 



