vi. TO NORWOOD, 



pelighted with the condescension find ur- 

 banity of their worthy host, and eagerly 

 Anticipating the pleasure they should expe- 

 rience, the two brothers -were in the library 

 long before the appointed hour j when they 

 were joined by their father and the master 

 of the mansion, who immediately conducted 

 them to the garden, which is in the form of 

 an cblong square, about an acre in extent, situ- 

 ated on the south si.de of the dwelling-house, 



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The walls are .covered with fruit-trees, and 

 the extremities adorned with shrubberies. 



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A statue of Urania, supporting a globe and 

 a dial, with this inscription, Post est Qccasiv 

 calva, stands in the upper part of thegarden.* 



The next object which arrested the atten- 

 tion of the young friends, was a truly classi- 

 cal groupe in statuary, representing th 

 fates. Clotho is holding the spindle, and pul- 

 ling the thread, which Lachesw winds up. 

 Atropos, in a kneeling posture, extends tiue 



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*" Opportunity is bald .behind :" which is of the saea.C 

 rung as our trgliih proverb, of * Seizing Time by 



