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Having run into length, I fhall only add at pre- 

 icnt> that I know fevcral hundred acres which I 

 remennber to have been rented at is. per acre'pcr 



annum J 



odds to I where tliou'ft go." And fo left the gentleman without tell- 

 ing him the road to Frog-hole, making a merit of his forbearance iu 

 not Honing him for a bailiff, an cxcircman,'of a fpy ; whereas, if the* 

 llrangcr had fatisfied the impertinent cuf iofity df H6dge with ruftick 

 good-humour, he would have carried him through the waters on Ki* 

 back, ifit hid b^en a mile, fbr flx-peilce. 



The labouring people amongft us are exceedingly ignorant ; as a 

 ph)of, the minifter of Pawlet, at the time of the American war, chofe 

 fof his text thefe words: "Who will go up with me to Ramoath-Gilead 

 to battle?" After a fhort paufe, and no perfon anfwering, one of our 

 fifhcrmen who had been a failor ftood forward, and told the clergynun 

 though none c/f the reft would goi Vith him, yet he would go. 



- A popular chara<J>er may (if proof againft the ague) live very com- 

 fortably and fafe from frce-booters in this country. The neceflkry 

 qualifications are, riches, ignorance, and good-humour: one of this 

 ftararp, lately deceafed, was more popular than any other, owing chiefly 

 to a very trifling incident. The clergyman and he having drunk 

 freely one fummcr evening at the public k-houfe, were returning home 

 about twelve o'clock at night, when the parfon had the misfortune to- 

 be fet faft in a bog j and as men drowning will catch at a reed, fo he 

 petitioned his companion, very pathetically, for afTillance. Our hero 

 knew he was unable to afiord his diftrelted friend any kind of relief, 

 and told him fo ; but being overcome with his rhetorick, told him thait 

 it Should never be faid he had deferted him, and fo coolly walked 

 into the bog, and fat down by his fide till morning, when they were 

 both found and relieved. This gentleman's poultry were fafe ever 

 after, and what is more remarkable, liis hedges efcaped unmolefled od 

 the fifth of November* 



The method of feclttig a new paffon, as ufually phrafcd, is to call 

 ^im up 9t twelve o'clock at night to baptize a child; if he goes 



voluntarily 



