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choice of peas was not a bad choice, and it might be well 

 for mankind at large, as well as for the asinine brotherhood, 

 were peas more extensively relied upon as a kind of food 

 likely to " stick to the ribs.-" As regards usefulness, the 

 pea family is one of the wonders of creation ; but as we 

 cannot afford space to be scientific, we shall quietly quit 

 the subject while our shoes are good. 



" An early worshipper at Nature's shrine, 

 T loved her rudest scenes warrens and heaths, 

 And yellow commons, and birch- shaded hollows, 

 And hedgerows bordering unfrequented lanes ; 

 Bower'd with wild roses, and the clasping woodbine, 

 Where purple tassels of the tangling vetch 

 With bittersweet, and bryony inweave, 

 And the dew fills the silver bindweed's cups. 

 I love to trace the brooks whose humid banks 

 Nourish the harebell, and the freckled pagil ; 

 And stroll among o'ershadowing woods of beech, 

 Lending in summer, from the heats of noon, 

 A whispering shade, while haply there reclines 

 Some pensive lover of uncultured flowers." 



CHARLOTTE SMITH. 



