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grown surprisingly, and is, perhaps, the largest 

 Lombardy poplar in this neighbourhood. 

 Amongst those who had taken shelter under its 

 foliage was a fine handsome recruiting sergeant. 

 He has been to fish again to-day ; and he told 

 me only an hour or so ago, that he had deter- 

 mined to wait under the tree until the storm 

 should have passed away ; adding, at the same 

 time, how grateful he was to Almighty God 

 for his preservation. He said he had only just 

 got into the saddle-room, when the thunder 

 storm burst over us. 



THE ROLLER CALLED PICA MARINA IN 

 ITALY. 



" I love to see the little goldfinch pluck 

 The groundsel's feather'd seed, and twit and twit ; 

 And then, in bower of apple blossoms perch'd, 

 Trim his gay suit, and pay us with a song. 

 I would not hold him prisoner for the world. " 



Hurdis. 



I know nothing in the environs of Rome half 

 so grand and charming as the ornamented 

 grounds of the beautiful villa Pamphili Doria, 



