ous 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 sequestered individu- 

 als. 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 diminu- 

 tive companion. Thus by mutual good offices, each 

 seemed to console the vacant hours of the other : 

 so that Milton, when he puts the following senti- 

 ment 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." 



Selborne, Aug. 15, 1775. 



LETTER LXVII. 



To THE Honourable Daines Barrington. 



We have two gangs or hordes of gypsies 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 1 have nothing particular to say ; 

 but the other is distinguished by an appellative 



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