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 and being desired to keep it she added—“We shall now be rich indeed!—my own little ones, and this one, and their grandmother, we shall all be rich!”

“Good creature!” exclaimodexclaimed [sic] Walden, with emotion, “you are rich indeed, in a heart to which all other riches are dross! your humanity to this orphan will be better rewarded; but, if this were my last crown, you should have it.—Hasten away, or I may be tempted to take the child, to have the pleasure of bringing it up, that it may love me as it will you.”

On hearing this, the woman hastily pressed the infant to her bosom, and giving Walden a farewell benediction, pursued her journey with alacrity.

A Nobleman, in the early part of the reign of Lewis XV. having a very vicious horse, which none of the grooms or servants would ride, (several of them having been thrown, and one killed,) asked leave to have him turned loosoloose [sic] into a menagerie, against one of the largest lions. The king readily consented; and the animal on a certain day, was conducted there. Soon after thothe [sic] arrival of thothe [sic] horse, the door of the den was drawn up, and the lion with great state and majesty, marched slowly to the mouth of it; when seeing his antagonist, he set up a tremendous roar. The horse immediately startled, and fell back. His ears were erected; his mane raised; his eyes sparkled; and something like a general convulsion seemed to agitate his whole frame. After the first emotion of fear had subsided,