Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . rablecrown,— in short may they (as they well may) slip offaltogether! May peace be thine, and much good material for jokes ! May thy days still be long in the land and (in the lan-guage of the humorous but unlettered Hibernian) thy nights,a mere nothing! Mayst thou, in any walk whatsoever, aye flourish likea green bay tree ; and when the summons to join that m-numerable caravan, that moves so mysteriously to thatbourne whence no traveler
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . rablecrown,— in short may they (as they well may) slip offaltogether! May peace be thine, and much good material for jokes ! May thy days still be long in the land and (in the lan-guage of the humorous but unlettered Hibernian) thy nights,a mere nothing! Mayst thou, in any walk whatsoever, aye flourish likea green bay tree ; and when the summons to join that m-numerable caravan, that moves so mysteriously to thatbourne whence no traveler returns — alive — of which the *Consult Prov., L, 10 to 19; also Prov., XIII., , IY.,4. i Children like olive plants round about thy table.—Psalin^CXXVIIL, 3. FAREWELL. 359 bright poets have spoken, finally comes to thee, may it findthee prepared to meet it with that same sweet smile— child-hke and bland, and audible — with which thou hast everbeen able to meet and to greet a good joke! By the hand of thy kinsman, the fourth day of the ninthmonth of the one hundred and seventh year of the inde-pendence of our common country. MOTTOES FOR KHiPTER IIYII. l^istory, -vvVjiclr) is, indeed, litfcle more tlgar] tl^e regigber<of fehe crimes, follies and misfopfeurjes of marjkirjd. Gibbon : Decline and Fall, Etc. This is fche feputb) tlje poet, sirjgs. Tennyson : Locksley Hall. ^y-whicl] I dor)fi -wigh to be understood as intinjatiii]tb)afc tl^e §calpin -wpetches ?wh)o are iq tb)e Injii] bigqegs atthe present day are of arjy account, op calculated to nrjaketjonge happy. Artemas Ward: His Travels. Lxo ! the poop Irjdian ! Pope : Essay on Man. If fporq tVje evidence Ijepe advanced the reader ghouldcorjclude that the coupge of events was, or) tVje wljole, ag IKave here traced it, l;)e would got be far wror|g. Thucydides. 360
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