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A FRIEND MADE AND FRIEND LOST.

TO visit, is a great thing in the boy calendar: not to visit this or that neighbor, to drink tea, or eat straw berries, or play at draughts; but, to go away on a visit in a coach, with a trunk, and a great-coat, and an umbrella : this is large !

It makes no difference, that they wish to be rid of your noise, now that Charlie is sick of a fever : the reason is not at all in the way of your pride of visiting. You are to have a long ride in a coach, and eat a dinner at a tavern, and to see a new town almost as large as the one you live in, and you are to make new acquaintances. In short, you are to see the world : a very proud thing it is, to see the world !

As you journey on, after bidding your friends adieu, and as you see fences and houses to which you have not been used, you think them very odd indeed : but it

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