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 THE WIDOW where he is a very important personage. He makes her a visit of business once a year, when he looks into all her affairs; which, as



she is no manager, are apt to get into confusion. He examines the books of the overseer, and shoots about the estate, which, he says, is well stocked with game, notwithstanding that it is poached by all the vagabonds in the neighbourhood.

It is thought, as I before hinted, that the captain will inherit the greater part of her 30