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the best and most convenient, a good fronting 

 stream being only a rod's length from the door. 

 Moreover, while you take your "ease in your 

 Inn," or rest your head on your pillow, you can 

 behold the state of the water, which, in an un- 

 propitious morning for sport is no doubt very- 

 agreeable ; for a i little more sleep a little more 

 slumber,' after a hard day previously at the 

 water is sometimes pleasant. Here have I seen 

 come, with faces blanched like a London baker, 

 those who had been confined for months to the 

 desk or counter, and go away in a few days 

 with the blush of the rose on their cheek. I 

 have seen grief personified, depart smiling and 

 cheerful ; and have I not seen also avaricious 

 hearts enter, and go out again resolving for 

 the future to be more beneficent ! So much 

 for our Cottage at the Quarry. 1 Oh that 



1 Here in the spring we are visited by many cuckoos, 

 and Shortrede, the shepherd, told me a curious story 

 about one ; it had laid an egg as they generally do, in a 

 small bird's nest, on the hill, and when the young cuckoo 

 was hatched along with the rest, by its size and strength 

 of wing, it turned out all the other little ones from the 

 nest. He often put these in again, and the old pair had 

 great difficulty to keep them all in food. But one 

 morning, he found the little brood had been uncere- 



