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till it came by its prattling, to delight its parents, and dandle up and down, when to make their joy more compleat, the beautiful mother was two years after delivered of a fair daughter, who was named Jane, as the boy was named Cassander.

These blessings home, and his many prosperities abroad, the great increase of their cattle, corn, and whatever they undertook, pronounced them the happiest pair in all the country; sudden turns, even when least expected, as it happened in this case, for having lived to see their children, the greatest