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any longer wonder at their want of success ; or hope to 

 see a single specimen produced that will be worth looking 

 at ? With this I conclude, hoping that thou hast received 

 some information, and occasionally had a smile upon thy 

 countenance, while perusing these " Wanderings ; " and 

 "begging, at the same time, to add that 



Well I know thy penetration 



Many a stain and blot will see, 

 In the languid, long narration, 



Of my sylvan errantry. 



For the pen too oft was weary 



In the wandering writer's hand, 

 As he roved through deep and dreary 



Forests, in a distant land. 



Show thy mercy, gentle reader, 



Let him not entreat in vain ; 

 It will be his strength's best feeder, 



Should he ever go again. 



And who knows how soon, complaining 



Of a cold and wifeless home, 

 He may leave it, and again in 



Equatorial regions roam 1 



C. W. 



