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 money, for which ervice he received no other recompence but the urplice: Jane caued this badge of eccleiatical pomp to be made o rich and umptuous, that no archbihop need have been ahamed to wear it.

The affectionate mother, in her old age, had great joy from her children. Number-Nip’s favourite became a brave fellow, and practied the virtuous leons he dictated, in the unlettered integrity of her heart.



AFTER the Gnome had betowed his liberal dower on mother Joan, he appeared no more for a long time. The common people amued themelves with aburd tories, which the fancy of old houewives, in winter evenings, pun out as long x