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 manifests himself, that,—even is the smallest inseet that buzzes in his ear,—the most seemingly insignificant reptile that crawls at his feet,—or the smallest blade of grass he treads upon,—he would find, if attentively examined, matter of admiration, and reason to conclude, that 'no human creature could do the like; 'that, the hand that made it is Divine!'

, from the characters of the boys, introduced as the heroes of this, the sequel that I am about to communicate might have been expected; yet, I must confess, that at the time I penned it, I could not possibly have had the remotest idea, that the rapidity of events in the history of that unhappy individual, whose melancholy fate is about to form the principal part of my story, would have been such, as to have hurried him so quickly from one degree of vice to another, till he arrived at that deplorable condition to which be is now reduced; and which must soon hurry him from an earthly to a heavenly tribunal, with all his sins and imperfections on his head.

Having occasion a few days since to visit the same town, where my residence was, at the time the interview above alluded to took place, I could not help feeling as I passed the well known spot,