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THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. 157 ing, I must return, I must return, this isolation is worse than solitude !" and the Bean got about as much higher up his pole for the same purpose; but when they heard the conclusion, The same sun by day, the same moon by night, &c.," the native land seemed merged into a common land, and the garden felt a world instead of a small enclosure. "Good, good, very good," cried they therefore at last. If this be true, there is no need to wander further." It was well perhaps they came to this conclusion, for the efforts they had begun to make would not have carried them far on the road to India, or even France Then beside all the smaller plants (of whom I have given but an instance or two), there were the fruit trees just in the same state. These were settlers, and you might have thought had got used to the country which had adopted them. But no, unless people were very tender over them, and gave them a warm wall and saved their roots from getting into ungenial soil, they got terribly out of sorts, and bore no fruit. There was the Peach, for instance; his case was a very trying one. He