Chapter 34 No.34

"And crowds commencing mere vexation,

Retirement sent its invitation."-SHENSTONE.

THE tench, no doubt, considers the pond in which he lives as the Great World. There is no place, however stagnant, which is not the great world to the creatures that move about, in it. People who have lived all their lives in a village still talk of the world as

            
            

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