98 AUGUST. 



" Fair Ceres calls to join her jocund train, 



Pours plenty in our laps, and bids us laugh at pain ; 

 Sweet Goddess, we are thine, and smile, and laugh like thee, 

 Crown'd with thy garlands, happy, rich, and free/' 



We are the happiest of the human race, 

 that want but little, and have all the world 

 affords ; well may our bard exclaim, 



" O, the pleasure of the plains, 



Happy nymphs, and happy swains I" 



But stay, hitherto our recreation has been 

 selfish, confined entirely to the male creation ; 

 yet there is vast scope for the enjoyment and 

 participation of the other sex, without the toil 

 or stratagems, as shall be seen. About noon on 

 a fine day, how delightful to rest while the sun 

 is in meridian, and be joined by your fair 

 partner to lunch under the shade of some wide- 

 spreading elm, and afterwards pencil the sur- 

 rounding scenery ! What charming views such 

 opportunities afford ; a world of vast discovery, 

 which, but for our enthusiasm, would lack the 



