84 WANDERINGS IN 



JOURNEY. 



FIRST looked lean and sickly for above a year, but began 

 to mend the spring after; and by Midsummer 

 became fat and frisky. 



The kind-hearted reader will rejoice on learn- 

 ing that Earl Percy, pitying her misfortunes, 

 sent her down from London to Walton Hall, 

 near Wakefield. There she goes by the name of 

 "Wouralia. Wouralia shall be sheltered from the 

 wintry storm ; and when summer comes, she 

 shall feed in the finest pasture. No burden 

 shall be placed upon her, and she shall end her 

 days in peace. 



For three revolving autumns, the ague-beaten 

 wanderer never saw, without a sigh, the swallow 

 bend her flight towards warmer regions. He 

 wished to go too, but could not ; for sickness had 

 enfeebled him, and prudence pointed out the folly 

 of roving again, too soon, across the northern 

 tropic. To be sure, the continent was now open, 

 and change of air might prove beneficial; but 

 there was nothing very tempting in a trip across 

 the channel, and as for a tour through England ! 

 England has long ceased to be the land for ad- 

 ventures. Indeed, when good King Arthur re- 

 appears to claim his crown, he will find things 

 strangely altered here ; and may we not look for his 

 coming ? for there is written upon his grave-stone, 



" Hie jacet Arturus, Rex quondam Rexque futurus." 



" Here Arthur lies, who formerly 

 Was king and king again to be." 



