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lover's daily rations during a New England winter are somewhat like Robinson Crusoe's on his island in the wet season. "I eat a bunch of raisins for my breakfast," he says, "a piece of goat's flesh or of the turtle for my dinner, and two or three of the turtle's eggs for my supper." Such a fare was ample for health, perhaps; and probably every item of it was sufficiently appetizing, in itself considered; but after the first week or two it must have begun to smack of monotony. The castaway might have complained with some of old, "My soul loatheth this light bread." He might have complained, I say; I do not remember that he did. What I do remember is that when, moved by pious feeling, he was on the point of thanking God for having brought him to that place, he suddenly restrained himself, or an influence from without restrained him.