gardener, she procured the Hesperian fruit, with which she returned
in triumph.





CHAPTER VI.




Mrs. Grizzle is indefatigable in gratifying her Sister's
Longings--Peregrine is born, and managed contrary to the Directions
and Remonstrances of his Aunt, who is disgusted upon that account,
and resumes the Plan which she had before rejected.


The success of this device would have encouraged Mrs. Pickle to
practise more of the same sort upon her sister-in-law, had she not
been deterred by a violent fever which seized her zealous ally,
in consequence of the fatigue and uneasiness she had undergone;
which, while it lasted, as effectually conduced to her repose, as
any other stratagem she could invent. But Mrs. Grizzle's health
was no sooner restored, than the other, being as much incommoded
as ever, was obliged, in her own defence, to have recourse to some
other contrivance; and managed her artifices in such a manner, as
leaves it at this day a doubt whether she was really so whimsical
and capriccios in her appetites as she herself pretended to be;
for her longings were not restricted to the demands of the palate