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greenhouse and jardin potager. Plow charming is Green 

 Bank and the true hospitality of these English friends. It 

 is a cold night, the wind blowing like November; it has 

 been the first day of my exhibition of pictures per card, 

 and one hundred and sixty-four persons were admitted. 



August 15. Green Bank, three miles from Liverpool. I 

 am now at this quiet country home ; the morning passed in 

 drawing, and this afternoon I took a long waLc with Miss 

 Rathbone and her nephew ; we were accompanied by a 

 rare dog from Kamschatka. How I did wish / could have 

 conducted them towards the beech woods where we could 

 move wherever fancy led us ; but no, it could not be, and 

 we walked between dreary walls, without the privilege of 

 advancing towards any particular object that might attract 

 the eye. Is it not shocking that while in England all is 

 hospitality within^ all is so different without ? No one dare 

 trespass, as it is called. Signs of lajge dogs are put up; 

 steel traps and spring guns are set up, and even eyes are 

 kept out by high walls. Everywhere we meet beggars, for 

 England though rich, has poverty gaping every way you 

 look, and the beggars ask for bread, — yes, absolutely for 

 food. I can only pray, May our Heavenly Father have 

 mercy on them. 



August 17. Green Bank. This morning I lay on the 

 grass a long time listening to the rough voice of a Magpie; 

 it is not the same bird that we have in America. I drove 

 to the Institution with the Queen Bee of Green Bank, and 

 this afternoon began a painting of the Otter in a trap, with 

 the intention to present it (if it is good) to my friend Mr. 

 Roscoe's wife. This evening dined at Mr. Wm. Rathbone's, 

 and tliere met a Quaker lady, Mrs. Abigail , who 



talked much and well about the present condition of Eng- 

 land, her poor, her institutions, etc. It is dreadful to know 

 of the want of bread here ; will it not lead to the horrors of 

 another revolution ? The children of the very poor are 

 often forced by their parents to collect daily a certain 



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