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ship. For a very intelligent and observant person 

 has assured me, that in the former part of his life, 

 keeping but one horse, he happened also on a time 

 to have but one solitary hen. These two incon- 

 gruous animals spent much of their time together 

 in a lonely orchard, where they saw no creature 

 but each other. By degrees an apparent regard 

 began to take place between these two seques- 

 tered individuals. The fowl would approach the 

 quadruped with notes of complacency, rubbing 

 herself gently against his legs ; while the horse 

 would look down with satisfaction, and move 

 with the greatest caution and circumspection, lest 

 he should trample on his diminutive companion. 

 Thus, by mutual good offices, each seemed to 

 console the vacant hours of the other : so that 

 Milton, when he puts the following sentiment 

 in the mouth of Adam, seems to be somewhat 

 mistaken : 



" Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl, 

 So well converse, nor with the ox the ape." 



XXV. 



WE have two gangs, or hordes of gipsies which 

 infest the south and west of England, and come 

 round in their circuit two or three times in the 

 year. One of these tribes calls itself by the noble 

 name of Stanley, of which I have nothing parti- 

 cular to say ; but the other is distinguished by 

 an appellative somewhat remarkable. As far as 

 their harsh gibberish can be understood, they 

 seem to say thai the name of their clan is 

 Curleople : now the termination of this word is 

 apparently Grecian ; and as Mezeray and the 

 gravest historians all agree that these vagrants 

 did certainly migrate from Egypt and the East, 



