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Pifcator. Better late than never; though we 

 ought to have done it before. 



Some fuch converfation as this patted, when our 

 fituation was really becoming rather a critical one. 

 After wandering about for fome time, we began 

 to be a little difheartened, though we had con- 

 trived to pafs in fafety over the top of the firfl 

 mountain, and to defcend the other fide. All the 

 pleafant little incidents of the day were now for- 

 gotten ; and we felt a ftrong inclination to empty 

 our bafkets of their contents, fo heavily did they 

 begin to prefs upon our moulders. 



It is very fingular how entire a revulflon of 

 feeling will a flight change of circumftances im- 

 mediately call forth ! Exulting an hour or two 

 before in our fuccefs at the Grwyne Fawr, per- 

 haps, had our load been as much again when we 

 flatted on our return, we mould have fubmitted 

 to it, as a matter of courfe. But now, how de- 

 voutly did we wifh the fifh anywhere than in our 

 bafkets, though we had not the heart to throw 

 them away. 



Oh ! what wondrous power does the mind po- 

 fefs over thefe dull bodies of ours ! It is not learn- 

 ing, it is not clevernefs, it is not courage, it is not 

 induftry, that will alwjays fucceed in overcoming 

 difficulties. Elafticity of mind, I believe to be the 



