SAMOUELLE S 



quantities at the roots of trees, and decomposing 

 vegetables, late in the autumn; and to this delightful 

 provision of nature Chateaubriand has observed, 

 "It is undoubtedly very remarkable that the teal, 

 the duck, the goose, the woodcock, the plover, 

 the lapwing, which serve us for food, all arrive 

 when the earth is bare ; while, on the contrary, the 

 foreign birds, by which we are visited in the season 

 of fruits, administer only to our pleasures ; they are 

 musicians sent to heighten our banquets. Thus the 

 birds of winter are the manna of the rude northern 

 blasts, as the nightingales are the gift of the zephyrs: 

 let the wind blow from whatever point of the horzion 

 it will, it is sure to bring us a present from Pro- 

 vidence." 



