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" is a fellow there, who would soon let you 

 " knowj that your fine apple-trees do not belong 

 " to you. He would have his nose in your 

 " sheep-fold, your calf-pens, your milk-pail, 

 " your sow's-bed, if not in the sow herself. 

 " Your daughters would have no occasion to 

 " hunt out the hen's nests : he would do that 

 " for them." And then I gave him a proof of 

 an English Parson's vigilance by telling him 

 the story of Baker's peeping out the name, 

 marked on the sack, which the old woman was 

 wearing as a petticoat. To another of my 

 neighbours, who is very proud of the circum 

 stance of his grandfather being an Englishman, 

 as, indeed, most of the Americans are, who 

 are descended from Englishmen: to this neigh 

 bour I was telling the story about the poor 

 woman at Holly Hill, who had nearly dipped 

 her rushes once too often. He is a very grave 

 and religious man. He looked very seriously 

 at me, and said, that falsehood was falsehood, 

 whether in jest or earnest. But, when I in 

 vited him to come to my house, and told him, 

 that 1 would show him the acts which the Bo 

 rough-men had made to put us in jail if we 

 made our own soap and candles, he was quite 

 astonished. " What! said he, and is Old Eng- 

 " land really come to this! Is the land of our 

 " forefathers brought to this state of abject 



