lips, loud as if you were smacking
your palms, for that yellow morsel was unknown to Vitellius. Don't crush
the shell, but throw it into the Etive, that the Fairies may find it at
night, and go dancing in the fragile but buoyant canoe, in fits of small
shrill laughter, along with the foam-bells over the ebb-tide Rapids
above Connal's raging Ferry.

The salmon is in shivers, and the grouse-pie has vanished like a dream.

"So fades, so languishes, grows dim, and dies,
All that this world is proud of!"

Only a goose remains! and would that he too were gone to return no more;
for he makes us an old man. No tradition survives in the Glen of the era
at which he first flourished. He seems to have belonged to some tribe of
the Anseres now extinct; and as for his own single individual self, our
senses tell us, in a language not to be misinterpreted, that he must
have become defunct in the darkness of antiquity. But nothing can be too
old for a devil--so at supper let us rectify him in Cayenne.

Oh! for David Wilkie, or William Simpson (while we send Gibb to bring
away yonder Shieling and its cliff), to paint a picture--coloured, if
possible, from the life--of the Interior of our airy Pyramid. Door open,
and perpendicular canvass walls folded up--that settled but cloudy sky,
with here its broad blue fields, and there its broad blue glimpsing
glades--this greensward mound in the midst of a wilderness of
rock-strewn heather--as much of that one mountain, and as many of those
others, as it can be made to hold--that bright bend of the river--a
silver bow--and that white-sanded, shelly, shingly shore at Loch-Etive
Head, on which a troop of Tritons are "charging with all their
chivalry," still driven back and still returning, to the sound of
trumpets, of "flutes and soft recorders," from the sea. On the table,
all strewn and scattered "in confusion worse confounded," round the
Cask, which

--"dilated stands
Like Teneriffe or Atlas _unremoved_,"

what "buttery touches" might be given to the

--"reliquias Danaum atque inmitis Achillei!"

Then the camp-beds tidily covered and arranged along their own
department of the circle--quaint dresses hanging from loops, all the
various apparelling of hunter, shooter, fisher, and forester--rods,
baskets, and nets occupying their picturesque division--fowling-pieces,
double and single, rejoicing through the oil-smooth brownness of their
barrels in the exquisite