Goslington Shadow:

A ROMANCE

OF THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

"Et quid se deceat spectatas consulit undas."

OVID METAMOR.

"Keek into the draw well, Janet."

SCOTCH SONG.

BY

MUNGO COULTERSHOGGLE, ESQ.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

New-York:

PRINTED BY AND FOR J. & J. HARPER,

230 PEARL-STREET.

19463.12.8.5

HARVARD COLLEGE

Jan 15, 1929

LIBRARY

Checter doyco hra nough

Southern District of New-York, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 28th day of May, in the fortyeighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, J. & J. HARPER, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a Book; the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"Goslington Shadow: a Romance of the Nineteenth Century. By Mungo Coultershoggle, Esq. In two volumes."

In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned;" and also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such co pies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

GOSLINGTON SHADOW.

CHAPTER I.

THE SLUGGARD.

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows,
The dreadful east is all the wind that blows.

POPE,

ALTHOUGH We do not seek to conceal our partiality to those rural concerns and habits which others of a more refined taste and more enlightened minds than we have the vanity to assume to ourselves, have denominated by the appellation of rustic and vulgar, yet as we do not altogether coincide in our opinion with Laird Shadow, in holding all literature and polite learning in contempt, nor in speaking of the polished habits of those of the higher circles, or of those in better circumstances, who dwell in cities, as effeminate or flimsy fopperies, unworthy the attention of a man of sound understanding. We therefore consider the Laird, now that he might look on himself as a man of large property, as carrying things too far, in expecting that his son and heir should have imbibed the same humble ideas as he did respecting his apparel and personal appearance, or that he should