No. VII. 

 EXCURSION TO TWICKENHAM. 



As a relief to more abstruse studies, our 

 interesting youths had commenced, under, 

 the eye of their attentive parent, a regular 

 course of English poetry. They had toge- 

 ther admired the beauties of Shakspeare, 

 of Milton, of Pope, and many others who 

 slied a lustre over the age and country which 

 gave them birth. Enthusiastic admirers of 

 their works, they were anxious to behold 

 those places where they had passed their 

 youth, or which had offered a shelter to their 

 declining years. In conformity with these 

 feelings, at an early hour on a beautiful 

 morning, the happy trio bent their steps 

 toward the village of Twickenham. The 

 weather was delightful j and as they slowly 



proceeded 



