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( 10 ) coming. The wager was accepted won, for the gentleman whom he  named appeared. "I was ſure I win, ſaid the honeſt Hibernian, fo knew the voice of his foot.

The late king of Pruſſia, who to converſe with his ſubjects, being  a journey to Breſlaw, paſſing by a farmer's houſe near Schweidnitz,  that he had abundance of fine cattle and a remarkable large dunghill. monarch aſked him, how he to manage ſo much better than  neighbours? "My father," ſaid farmer, was killed by your  ſide, and I have the indulgence  being exempted from taxes which will always encreaſe farmer's ſtock and proſperity." "I am glad you have experienced this," ſaid the king; but I am afraid we muſt be content to ſee ſmaller dunghils if the war continues; for my people  be defended as well as fed."

A gentleman obſerving on the ſmartneſs of C. F—, while he was yet a lad, another who was ſtanding by obſerved,