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 reting-place o tempted the weary glas-man, that he immediately et his crate upon the upright log, and tretched himelf along on the hady ide among the luxuriant gras. Here he began to conider what profit this burden would produce: upon an exact calculation he found that if he pent not a ingle penny at home, but made the indutrious hand of his wife provide the family with food and cloaths, he hould jut be able to buy an as at Smiedberg fair, and lay in a cargo of goods. The idea of transferring the load from his own back to Dapple’s, and walking at his eae beide, o delighted his fancy at this moment, when his houlders were raw and ore, that he could not help carrying on his agreeable reverie. ‘Now when once I have the as,’ thinks he, ‘I hall oon convert it into an hore; and when I have got the nag nug in the table, an acre of ground to grow oats for provender will come in coure. One acre will oon grow to two, two to four, ‘till