v MEMOIR. 



autumnal holidays through the country, 

 without any fixed object. In one of these 

 rovings, being then in the twelfth year of 

 my age, I went to call upon a friend of 

 my father's, without any other clothes than 

 those which I had upon me. The follow- 

 ing morning, I thought my shirt looked 

 dirty, and therefore determined to wash it 

 myself. I chose, as a place fit for this 

 purpose, a little meadow on the side of the 

 river* Milk, which was sheltered by a high 

 bank behind me. Having done the busi- 

 ness in the best manner I could, without 

 any assistance from soap, I placed my 

 shirt upon the grass for the purpose of 

 drying it, and laid myself in the mean 

 time in the sunshine, upon another piece 

 of dry grass in the neighbourhood. When 

 my shirt was dry, I put it on, and returned 

 to my friends. In the course of the night, 



* This, I ain told, is a rivulet rather than a river. E. 



