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as bright as day. Next morn we rose at dawn, THIED 



^ JOURNEY. 



got breakfast, packed up, each took his burden, 



and then we put ourselves on the track of the 

 wild boars, which we had been following the day 

 before. We supposed that they, too, would sleep 

 that night in the forest, as we had done ; and 

 thus the delay on our part would be no disadvan- 

 tage to us. This was just the case, for about 

 nine o'clock their feet-mark became fresher and 

 fresher : we now doubled our pace, but did not 

 give mouth like hounds. We pushed on in silence, 

 and soon came up with them ; there were above 

 one hundred of them ; we killed six, and the rest 

 took off in different directions. But to the point. 

 Amongst us the needy man works from light 

 to dark for a maintenance. Should this man 

 chance to acquire a fortune, he soon changes his 

 habits. No longer under " strong necessity's 

 supreme command," he contrives to get out of 

 bed betwixt nine and ten in the morning. His 

 servant helps him to dress, he walks on a soft 

 carpet to his breakfast table, his wife pours out 

 his tea, and his servant hands him his toast. After 

 breakfast, the doctor advises a little gentle exer- 

 cise in the carriage for an hour or so. At dinner- 

 time he sits down to a table groaning beneath the 

 weight of heterogeneous luxury : there he rests 

 upon a chair for three or four hours, eats, drinks, 

 and talks (often unmeaningly) till tea is an- 

 nounced. He proceeds slowly to the drawing- 



