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POSTSCRIPT. 
It is with a feeling bordering on regret that the author 
finds herself at the close of her pleasant task; in the 
composition of which, and in making the drawings 
which illustrate it, many an hour has been most agree¬ 
ably beguiled. Highly gratified would she be if her 
readers could make the same avowal in reference to the 
perusal, and encourage her by the assurance that they 
have accompanied her in her sylvan wanderings with 
unwearied steps. 
Yet, “ in the spirit of meekness,” she would confess, 
that to amuse has not been her sole, or even her chief, 
aim. Throughout the work, she has endeavoured to 
bear in mind herself, and to impress on others, that 
“ a Christian should be a Christian in the field as well 
as in the temple; ” and that Nature should ever be the 
handmaid of Devotion: when she is made to take a 
higher position, she occupies His place, who made the 
“ heavens and the earth, and all the host of them.” 
In pursuance of her prevailing intention, she would 
leave one parting caution with her readers, borrowed 
from that delightful author, whose name has so often 
appeared in the foregoing pages. Evelyn, after describ¬ 
ing with more than his wonted enthusiasm the sylvan 
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