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remember with pleafure. Holding the bow 

 and arrow to the naked woman of the houfe, 

 I was about to offer money, my pocket hand- 

 kerchief, or my neckcloth in exchange for 

 them ; when a little copper-fkinned urchin, 

 almoft covered with long black hair, broke 

 out in fuch piteous bewailings, that (although to 

 have had the bow and arrow,I would have given 

 almoft any article of my apparel) I was at once 

 diverted from every thought of poffeffing them. 

 I felt that no terms could induce me to take 

 them, if at the expence of the tears, and 

 broken-hearted lamentations of the young 

 archer to whom they belonged. . Still I own 

 that I was cruel enough to prolong the little 

 rogue's cries and fears, by an experiment 

 upon the feelings of the mother. I wifhed 

 to afcertain the fentiments of an inhabitant of 

 the rude foreft upon fuch an occafion ; and 

 to obferve what w T ould be the conduct exhi- 

 bited under the circumftances of a fon's dif- 

 trefs ; I, therefore, feemingly, perfevered in 

 my attempts to prevail on the woman to let 

 me have the bow and arrow : — but flie was 

 true to nature ; and her child's happinefs was 

 the hrft object of her parent bread ! No offer — 

 no perfuafion could tempt her to barter her fon's 



