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INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE. 



LESSON I. 



NEARLY a century and a half ago, 

 great distress prevailed in a certain dis- 

 trict in England, where there were but a 

 few houses, peopled by labourers in the 

 humblest condition of life ; and, as the 

 land was unproductive, and marshes 

 hemmed in by mountains were to be seen 

 far and wide, the earth did not bring forth 

 sufficient to supply the wants of the peo- 

 ple, so that many of them were oblip-,1 

 to leave the home of their childhood, and 

 settle elsewhere. A poor lad, who had 

 only received sufficient i-diuMtion to 

 enable him to read, wa removed from 



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