HARRY'S HOLIDAY--KING JOHN; OR, THE TALE OF A TUB--SINDBAD; OR, THE DOG
OF PENELLAN.
"Country life,--let us confess it,
Man will little help to bless it,
Yet, for gladness there
We may readily possess it
In its native air.
"Rides and rambles, sports and farming,
Home, the heart for ever warming,
Books and friends and ease,
Life must after all be charming,
Full of joys like these."
Tupper.
"I'm not sure, Ida, that you will like the following story. There is
truth in it, though, and a moral mixed up with it which you may unravel
if you please. I call it--"
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