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linen, both very neatly dressed, the furniture plain and mea 

 gre, but every thing clean, and an appearance of a good deal 

 of comfort about the room. 



While the repairs were being made upon the hall, the 

 family lived in a cottage completely embowered among trees 

 and shrubs, which we afterwards passed, and I had the honour 

 of catching a glimpse, through the foliage, of a form in a grey 

 coat, which, I was assured, was the good Sir Watkins himself. 



Soon after leaving the park, I crossed the Esk by a very 

 high stone arch, built &quot;by Sir Watkins,&quot; as some ragged 

 boys and girls, who were employed in collecting for manure 

 the horsedung that dropped upon the road, informed me, and 

 this was the last I heard of Sir Watkins. 



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