LOVE OF THE COUNTRY.

Country people will tell you that they like the country, and detest

the town, although their enjoyments are of a kind which may be

obtained in far greater perfection in the latter than in the former.

The only person I ever knew who was honest in this respect, was a

gentleman, the possessor of a beautiful seat, in a beautiful country,

when he avowed his opinion, that there was "no garden like

Covent-garden, and no flower like a cauliflower."

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