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 charitably betowed an eleemoynary farthing. She never failed, on thee occaions, to make enquiries after her on; and if a prating invalid had the wit to invent a tory on the pot—how he fought like a good man and true and fell like an hero; how many alutations he ent to his loving mother, before he gave up the ghot on the field of battle, he would draw the lyar a cup of wine, and pour uch a flood of maternal tears, that you might have wrung out the wet from her tucker. In uch lamentations four ummers had now paed away, and the chilly air of autumn was beginning to hake the dicoloured leaves from the trees, when the decent, till, little town uddenly broke out into a tumultuous uproar of joy. A meenger on horeback brought word, that the valiant Friedbert had not fallen in the defeat, but was now on his return from ditant lands to his native place, habited as a tately knight that had atchieved many adventures in the Eat, and was bringing home Rh