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designs ; and this is their method of proceeding : they 

 take pieces of hazel, about the thickness of a man's arm, 

 and four or five inches long, which, having cleaved into a 

 proper shape and well dried, they place in a large pot 

 filled with sand, and cover the top with clay ; this done, 

 the whole is put into a potter's oven, or any other sufficient 

 degree of heat ; and when cooled again, the sticks are 

 found converted into charcoal, which sketches freely, and 

 easily rubs out. 



Who among you, my sisters, can vie with me in diffusing 

 gladness, when brown October is on his way, and when 



" Old Autumn, in the misty morn, 

 Stands shadowless, like Silence listening 

 To silence, for no lonely bird would sing 



Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, 



Nor lowly hedge, nor solitary thorn ; 

 Shaking his languid locks, all dewy bright, 

 With tangled gossamer, that fell by night, 



Pearling his coronet of golden corn " ? 



Boys may then be seen clambering up the banks, where 



