_AUTHOR WANTED.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
wonder would it be possible for you to find out for me the authorship of the following quotation, which for some time I have been trying in vain to track down, and am particularly anxious to discover :— " Tho toad within the furrow knows Where each tooth of the harrow goes; The, butterfly upon the load [or goad]
Preaches contentment to-the toad." • I have tried unsuccessfully all the ordinary sources of information—i.e., every possible quotation book in bookshops and libraries—and should be so grateful if you could help me. The quotation above is a quotation and not a mere extract, as several of my friends: are acquainted with it. One says she has known it from a child—i.e., forty-five years ago-and thinks it must be written by one of the early Victorian minor (I should say very minor) poets.—With apologies for troubling you, I am, Sir, he., I. MURIEL Coosa.
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