PROFITS OF THE SOCIETY. O7 
containing, besides a house, a bank and pond ; 
and, besides a ragged staff, a scaffold upon 
its top :—they should have, in short, a dwell- 
ing-place, in contrivance, between the yard 
of the Ostrich, or of the Kangaroos, and the 
houses, ponds, and surrounding banks, pro- 
vided elsewhere for the Beaver and the 
Otter. Give them these, and give them a 
scaffold as well as a pole, and their own 
health and happiness, as well as the public 
pleasure and amusement, would be endlessly 
increased; a natural drama would be in 
constant exhibition; the most thoughtless 
spectator would be amused; and the re- 
flecting and the beneficent would derive 
all that pleasure which is poured into the 
heart by the spectacle of the pleasure of 
those about us. ‘I was by nature,’ says 
Goldsmith, ‘an admirer of happy human 
faces ;—he might have made the description 
general, and spoken of the nature of all about 
him; and it is not only of ‘happy human 
faces, but of all happy faces and figures 
whatever, that all men are admirers! The 
sight of pleasure is pleasing. We love the 
things that look happy; and when we love, 
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