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xx Meanwell is turned out of doors, and flew to another parih for uccour. Where, then, ah! where hall poverty reide To 'scape the preure of contiguous pride? Sir Timothy, however, uffers for his injutice and wickednes, for "great part of the land lay untilled for ome years, which was deemed a jut reward for uch diabolical proceedings." Ill fares the land, to hatening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay.

Mis Charlotte Yonge, to whom I hall refer again, ays upon this: "If the conjecture be true which attributes this tale to Oliver Goldmith, we have een the ame pirit which prompted his poem of 'The Deerted Village,' namely, indignation and dimay at the dicouragement of mall holdings in the early part