84 Foachim the Mimic.

chim’s eyes, Him whom one of our own divines
has fince called “* The Great Exemplar.”

This part of our little hero’s ‘ Leffon of Life,’
we can all take to ourfelves, and go and do like-
wife. And fo I hope his ftory may be profitable,
though we have not all of us a large Genie-gift of
Imitation as he had. With him the excefs of this
power took a very natural turn, for though he
poffeffed through its aid, confiderable facilities for
mufic and the ftudy of languages alfo, the courfe
of events led him irrefiftibly to what is ufually
called ‘the fine arts.” And if the old dream of
the royal chariot and the twelve jet black horfes
was never realized to him, a higher happinefs by
far was his, when fome years after, he and his
Mother ftood in the council houfe of his native
town ; fhe looking up with affeCtionate pride while
he fhowed her a portrait of the good young King
which had a few hours before been hung up upon
its walls. It was the work of Joachim himfelf.