total neglect of his little affairs his family 

 without any overfeer, brought up in idlenefs, 

 and dirt and his wife, for whom he had no 

 means of providing either afliftance, or cure, 

 lying fo wretched an object always before him. 



We left him ftrongly imprefTed with his 



calamity ; which appeared to be a more fevere 

 vifitation, than the hand of heaven commonly 

 inflicts. 



On relating our adventure at fupper, we were 

 informed, that the man, whofe appearance of 

 fenfibility had affected us fo much, was one of 

 the moil hardened, mifchievous fellows in the 

 country that he had been detected in fheep- 

 ftealing that he had killed a neighbour's 

 horfe in an act of revenge and that it was 

 fuppofed, he had given his wife, who was 

 infamous likewife, a blow in a quarrel, which 

 had occafioned her malady. Through fuch 

 ftrange fatality do mankind become themfelves 

 the minifters of thofe diftrefles, which Pro- 

 vidence would never have inflicted upon 

 them. 



The next morning we took a particular view 

 of the beautiful fcenery around us ; of which, 



the 



