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Of the great joy that John expressed when he got.
possession of Ecclesdown.* * Dunkirk.
When John had got into his castle he seemed like Ulysses upon his plank after he had been well soused in salt water, who, as Homer says, was as glad as a judge going to sit down to dinner after hearing a long cause upon the bench.

I daresay John Bull's joy was equal to that of either of the two; he skipped from room to room, ran up-stairs and down-stairs, from the kitchen to the garrets, and from the garrets to the kitchen; he peeped into every cranny; sometimes he admired the beauty of the architecture and the vast solidity of the mason's work; at other times he commended the symmetry and proportion of the rooms.

He walked about the gardens; he bathed himself in the canal, swimming, diving, and beating the liquid element like a milk-white swan.

The hall resounded with the sprightly violin and the martial hautbois.