e eye is softened and sweetened by the womanly
wish to please; her hair is trimmed, and curled, and brushed with
exquisite neatness; and her whole dress arranged with that nice
attention to the becoming, the suitable both in form and texture,
which would be called the highest degree of coquetry, if it
did not deserve the better name of propriety. Never was such a
transmogrification beheld. The lass is really pretty, and Ned Miles
has discovered that she is so. There he stands, the rogue, close at
her aide, (for he hath joined her whilst we have been telling her
little story, and the milking is over!)--there he stands--holding her
milk-pail in one hand, and stroking Watch with the other; whilst she
is returning the compliment, by patting Neptune's magnificent head.
There they stand, as much like lovers as may be; he smiling, and she
blushing--he never looking so handsome, nor she so pretty, in all
their lives. There they stand, in blessed forgetfulness of all except
each other--as happy a couple as ever trod the earth. There they
stand, and one would not disturb them for all the milk and butter in
Christendom. I should not wonder if they were fixing the wedding-day.

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RECOLLECTIONS OF A R*T.

_(Concluded from page 365.)_

Finding a detachment just setting out to join the Grand Allied Army, I
thought, as a true Briton, I could do no less than accompany it, and
prevailed upon all our party to do the same.

The detachment with which I marched, consisted of 80,000. As we had
little baggage, having crossed the Rhine, we proceeded rapidly through
a dull, uninteresting country.

The town of Coblentz is situated at the junction of the Rhine
and the Moselle. Here the majestic Rhine gently flows along in
all its grandeur, separating the town from the noble fortress of
Ehrenbreitstein.[1] I crossed over the bridge of boats, and made
a most minute inspection of this very romantic castle, which gave
me great pleasure indeed. In a few days I availed myself of a
passage-boat which was going to Mayence, and was quite enraptured with
the view on all sides. Rhenish wines, and perhaps also the water,
I found did not well agree with my stomach; and no inconsiderable
annoyance, I soon experienced. They seemed, however, to have exactly
the same effect upon every Englishman I saw, so I was not singular. A
little brandy soon, however, put me all to rights; and by the time I
reached Strasbou