EARLY RISING. 3 
and even Charlotte, were good scholars in 
that respect; and though George was the 
worst of the trio, yet he managed to show his 
** shining morning face,” not ‘ unwillingly,” 
and in tolerable time for paying his compli- 
ments to the Bears and Monkeys in the Gar- 
den, along with his sisters and mamma: a 
virtue, for the cheerful practice of which, he 
was also in no small degree indebted for the 
delight with which he constantly watched the 
flights and wheelings of the Pigeons; fol- 
lowed the motions of the Ducks and other 
aquatic fowl; and paused before the sober 
majesty of the Eagles, and before the sleepy 
gravity of the Owls ! 
In reality, while our little company was 
yet advancing toward the Garden, the blush- 
ing tints of the clouds at sun-rise had not 
yet wholly vanished; and Charlotte felt so 
strongly the allurements of the scene, and 
looked with so much pleasure upon the placid 
and healthful countenance of her sister Jane, 
that, as she said, she could not help applying, 
to the charms of their early walk, what a 
late Swedish poet has said of the Flowers and 
the Spring :— 
