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agricultural part of Madam L's possessions, or as it is styled in New-England "landed estate," was situated in one of the smaller towns in the vicinity of that where she resided. It was under the care of a farmer of undoubted integrity, and industry, who rendered her, with great punctuality, her stipulated share of its products. His father had been, for many years, tenant of the same estate. After him a younger son succeeded to this trust, but died at an early age. The present occupant, being the only remaining branch of the family, and feeling an affection for the abode of his infancy, returned from "up-country," where, to use his own expression, he had "moved to make room for brother Zedekiah;" and resumed with delight the culture of those fields, where he had "drivteam when a leetle boy."

Madam L had often taken pleasure in his conversation, which was marked with that plain common-sense,