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 SALISBURY PLAIN.

MR JOHNSON, a very worthy charitable gentleman, was traveling sometime ago across one of those vast plains which are known in Wiltshire. It was a fine summer’s evening, and he rode slowly that he might have leisure to admire God in the works of his creation.

His attention was all of a sudden called off by the barking of a shepherd’s dog, and? looking up, he spied one of those little huts, which are here and there to be seen on these great downs; and near it was the Shepherd himself, busily employed with his dog