PEACE to thee, generous fwain! -I fee thou walkeft off with anguish-but thy joys fhall balance it-for happy is thy cottage- and happy is the harer of it-and happy are the lambs which fport about you!

THE SUPPER.

SHOE coming hoofe from the

A fore-foot of the thill-horfe, at the

beginning of the afcent of mount Taurira, the poftilion difmounted, twifted the fhoe off, and put it in his pocket; as the afcent was of five or fix miles, and that -horse our main dependence, I made a point of having the fhoe faftened on again, as well as we could; but the postilion had thrown away the nails, and the hammer in the chaife-box.being of no great ufe without them, I fubmitted to go on

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He had not mounted half a mile higher, when coming to a flinty piece of road, the poor devil loft a fecond fhoe, and from off his other fore-foot. I then got out of the chaife in good earnest; and, feeing a house about a quarter of a urile to the left hand, with a great deal to do, I prevailed upon the poftilion to turn ep 4o it. The look of the house, and of every thing about it, as we drew nearer, foon reconciled me to the difafter.-It was a little farm houfe furrounded with about twenty acres of vineyard, and about as much corn-and clofe to the house, on one fide, was a potagerie of an acre and a half, full of every thing which could make plenty in a French peafant's houfe-and on the other fide was a little wood which furnished wherewithal to drefs it. It was about eight in the evening when I got to the houfe-fo I left the poftilion to manage his point as he could-and for mine, I walked directly into the house.

THE

THE family confifted of an old grayLeaded man and his wife, with five or fix fons and fons-in-law, and their feveral -wives, and a joyous genealogy of 'em.

THEY were all fitting down together to their lentil-foup; a large wheaten loaf was in the middle of the table; and a flaggon of wine at each end of it promifed joy through the stages of the, repaft-'twas a feast of love.

THE old man rofe up to meet me, and with a respectful cordiality would have me fit down at the table; my heart was fet down the moment I entered the room; fo I fat down at once like a fon of the family; and to invest myself in the character as fpeedily as I could, I inftantly borrowed, the old man's knife, and taking up the loaf, cut myself a hearty lunchen; and as I did it, I faw a teftimony in every eye, not only of an honeft wel

come,

come, but of a welcome mixed with thanks that I had not feemed to doubt it.

WAS it this; or tell me, Nature, what elfe it was which made this morfel fo fweetand to what magic I owe it, that the draught I took of their flaggon was fo delicious with it, that they remain upon my palate to this hour?

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IF the fupper was to my taftegrace which followed it was much more

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WHEN

HEN fupper was over, the old man gave a knock upon the table with the haft of his knife, to bid them prepare for the dance: the moment the fignal was given, the women and girls ran all together into a back apartment to tie up their hair—and the young men to the door to wash their faces, and change their fabots; and in three minutes every foul was ready upon a little efplanade before the house to begin

The old man and his wife came out laft, and, placing me betwixt them, fat down upon a sopha of turf by the door.

THE old man had some fifty years ago been no mean performer upon the violeand, at the age he was then of, touched it well enough for the purpose. His wife VOL. II.

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