12 PLATE III. 



whilft happy in its apparent fecurity, ranging the plain to experience 

 the pleafures of liberty, to banquet in the nedareous profufion of the 

 vegetable kingdom, or catch the dew-drop from the humid air, to 

 infpirit and refrefh his parched fyftem from the mid-day heat, he be- 

 comes a dupe to his happinefs, his pleafures at once fully, and he falls 

 an unrefifling victim into the devouring jaws of death. 



