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for they took ill about three months after I lost ray place, and kept 

 so a long time : and when one died, it came so heavy to think it 

 might be all owing to our poor house and living ; and I took up hard 

 feelings against the squire, for what I thought was cruel in him to 

 discharge me as he did; as if he hadn't as much right to choose a 

 man as I had to choose a place, or how to behave in it. I think I 

 could have done, if it hadn't been for sickness, for we lived very 

 close ; but at last we had spent our little club-money, and were 

 obliged to ask a little credit. That we had never done before ; and 

 now we found out what a miserable thing it is ; for when the debt 

 got a little larger instead of less, my wife told me she noticed the 

 shopkeeper served other people before her, though she came first, and 

 had been waiting; asking them what they'd please to want, but 

 letting her ask for herself. My heart was as proud as ever, and 

 couldn't bear this ; so one morning I took a few little silver things I 

 had, and told the grocer to keep them till I could fetch them away 

 and pay him ; but I daresay he thought that would never be, for he 

 knew we were going down hill ; and one of my windows got broke, 

 and had a sheet of paper pasted over it, and there's no poorer look 

 than that ; and glad I was afterwards it was broke, — as I shall tell, 

 just to shew how one good turn deserves and gets another. 

 [To be continued.] 



DESCRIPTIVE LISTS OF FRUITS. 



No. VIII. 

 PEARS {continued from p. 134). 



8. Glout Morceau. Fruit rather large, very peculiar in shape, 

 being much swollen about the middle, from whence it diminishes 

 considerably to the crown, which is narrow ; towards the other ex- 

 tremity it is much contracted, and terminates in a truncate manner. 

 Eye rather small, deeply sunk in an unusually large cavity, the sides 

 of which are uneven ; segments long and narrow, erect. Stalk about 

 an inch long, inserted in a deep, often oblique, hollow. Skin pale- 

 greenish yellow, punctated with numerous very small greyish points, 

 and occasionally a little mottled with russet ; when fully exposed to 

 the sun, it sometimes acquires a blush of dull red. Flesh whitish, 

 perfectly buttery, and abounding in juice, which has a flavour pecu- 

 liar to itself. Season from the end of November till January, when 

 it is one of the very best Pears known. To do it justice, however, 

 the trees ought to be planted against a wall, and a south aspect 

 ■would be required in the north of England. 



9. Duchess of AngouMme. Fruit of the largest class ; its general 

 figure is obtusely-obovate, but the sides are often compressed, and 

 many of the fruit are a little flattened ; very broad at the stalk-end, 

 whilst it diminishes somewhat towards the eye. The whole surface 

 is made remarkably uneven by a great number of knobby protuber- 



