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neck and compel them to take the goods the gods 

 provide them with no black - care - to - follow 

 company ? Mind, I write as I do from a sense of 

 duty, but I should not be a little bit pleased if 

 they came by twos and threes, as in the pathetic 

 ballad of the '' Love on Saunders Hall," not to 

 speak of '* swarms." The available population's 

 indifference and laziness zs lamentable. At the 

 same time, I remember my painter friend, who 

 lectured rustics on the parsley fern's charms, 

 "instead of which" the yokels tore every scrap 

 out of the walls where it grew, boiled the take 

 like cabbage, and cast at their self-elected educator 

 hard names and hard stones as well. All the 

 while I recommend others to do themselves a 

 power of good free of cost I know that the whole 

 game can easily be spoilt. Still, I thought I 

 would put in a word in season while I had a 

 chance. 



Newhaven, Brighton's unfashionable neigh- 

 bour, is a rare nice little place taken right, and 

 would be ever so much better if Brighton was not 

 allowed to poison the coast to its (Brighton's) 

 eastward. A capital (capital if you make allow- 

 ances) tidal river flows by it, helping at its mouth 

 make the harbour, about which is the perpetual 

 going and coming of ships, the passing of small 

 boats, the snorting and puffing of steam tugs, the 

 cheery sounds of sailors at work, or lumpers 

 loading and unloading, the life of the moving tide, 

 and the sparkle of the sea outside, all so fascina- 

 ting to some of us, yours truly in particular. 

 Newhaven has not anything like justice rendered 

 it as a seaside resort. A fine centre this is for a 

 fortnight's ranging about the downs, on the river, 

 sea-fishing, and bathing, and do not let me forget 



