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CHAPTER XII. 



THE SECOND YEAE. 



WE now come to the second year. The house 

 had been finished. It occupied a command 

 ing position on the beautiful square that constituted 

 my possessions, and, with the wind whistling through 

 the innumerable ornaments that covered the edges 

 of its high peaks, brought to mind its original sea 

 faring owner. The land had been well plowed, at 

 last, and was no longer impervious to spade and 

 pick ; the strawberries, whose untimely fate has al 

 ready been described in anticipation, had been plant 

 ed, and the asparagus-bed was in a promising state 

 of preparation. Fruit-trees, and raspberry bushes, 

 and the &quot; great Lawton blackberry&quot; which, having 

 originally been discovered by Mr. Seaton, was called 

 by my intelligent fellow-farmers after Mr. Lawton, 

 because both names ended with &quot; ton&quot; were set out ; 

 my accounts for the year were made up, and I de 

 termined to go to Europe. 



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