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Rh round Mrs. Maſon, endeavouring to catch her eye, and obtain the notice they were ſo proud of. The girls made their beſt courtſies, bluſhing; and the boys hung down their heads, and kicked up the duſt, in ſcraping a bow of reſpect.

They found their miſtreſs preparing to drink tea, to refreſh herſelf after the toils of the day; and, with the eaſe peculiar to well-bred people, ſhe quickly enabled them to partake of it, by giving the tea-board a more ſociable appearance.

The harveſt-home was ſoon the ſubject of converſation, and the harper was mentioned. The family pride of the Welſh, ſaid Anna, has often diverted me; I have frequently heard the inhabitants of a little hut, that could ſcarcely be diſtinguished from the pig-ſty, which ſtood in the front of it, boaſt of their anceſtors and deſpiſe trade. They have informed me, that one branch of their family built the middle aiſle of the church; that another beautified the chancel, and gave the ten commandments, which blaze there in letters of gold. Some Rh