A HAPPY PAMILY. 
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congruous an assemblage. We wake to the bleating of 
goats and the song of birds; we breakfast with our 
parrots about us like a family-party; we dine, like 
royalty, to music; for then the parrots give place to 
some little golden-plumaged pets that glory in the 
clatter of knives and forks and dishes. Tea and supper 
are also musical meals ; for we train many of our 
birds to sing by lamplight. And we sleep very pleasantly 
with the odour of ash-tree fires pervading the house 
in winter; and all the rest of the year fragrances of all 
kinds are wafted through the open windows from our 
little flowery garden, or from the miles and miles of haw¬ 
thorns and haycocks that stretch on all sides around us. 
