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SIMMONDS’S
Fix this textCOLONIAL MAGAZINE.
Fix this textRIDES, RAMBLES, AND SKETCHES IN TEXAS.
Fix this textBY CHARLES HOOTON
Fix this textESQ.
Fix this textAUTHOR OF “COLIN CLINK,” “BILBERRY THURLAND,” ETC. ETC.
Fix this textHow natural is the propensity in man to seek for El Dorados, Happy
Fix this textLands, wild Gardens of Eden, where flowers grow without cultivation —
Fix this textwhere beasts of chase are not monopolised by the arm of aristocratic
Fix this textpower —where Governments are as liberal as the air—where labour
Fix this textreaps its own results, and lastly, and above all else, where a man’s back
Fix this textis not exactly either broken or very badly humped by too heavy a load
Fix this textof that most solid and dense of all known substances, commonly recog-
Fix this textnised under the name of taxation ! Poets, happy race ! have the faculty
Fix this textof manufacturing their own Paradises at home, without encountering
Fix this textsea-sickness and all the perils of the great deep before arriving at them.
Fix this textThey can see happiness in the landscape of a murky London street,
Fix this textand, by an alchemy more abstruse and subtle than was that of Roger
Fix this textBacon, convert a garret into a garden, a washhouse into a flower-pot,
Fix this textand the dirty dimity of a bedstead into the Tyrian purple drawn around
Fix this textsome beautiful ideal Paphian queen.
Fix this textOrdinary people, however, are compelled, in the course of their search
Fix this textafter a blissful seat on earth, to go another and quite a different way to
Fix this textwork. The dirty lanes of mere matter-of-fact must be gone through—
Fix this textthe mire of pure animal misery must be trampled in, until both body
Fix this textand mind are almost brought to a stand-still; and long and heavy must
Fix this textbe the labour before the garden wilderness smiles as it ought to do, and
Fix this textenables the labourer therein to laugh outright as he ought to do, from
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Fix this textTo speak individually, from my very youth upwards I had a strong
Fix this textdesire, one day or another, to. squeeze myself through the gate of some
Fix this textone or other of these (next to heaven itself) most-to-be-desiied places.
Fix this textIt so happened, however, that up to the year of Grace 1840, I con-
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Fix this textAt the latter end of December of that eventful year, after having
Fix this textcarefully weighed in the balance the respective merits of different para-
Fix this textdisaical parts of the earth, including New Zealand, and Australia (the
Fix this textpresent prison, alas ! of my friend Richard Howitt), I finally made up
Fix this textmy mind to go to Texas. The very name of Mexico, with its marvel-
Fix this textVOL. VII. NO. 28. APRIL, 1810.
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