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where he staid till he went away. I had no 

 talk with him. 1 could not know what condi 

 tion Mr. Cobbett found the house in, for I did 

 not come here 'till the middle of August. I 

 never heard whether the gentleman that lived 

 here before Mr. Cobbett, was an American, or 

 not. I never in my life said a word against 

 the people or the country: I am very glad I 

 came to it ; I am doing very well in it ; and 

 have found as good and kind friends amongst 

 the Americans, as I ever had in all my life. 



MARY ANN CHURCHER. 



Hyde Park, 

 8th January, 1819. 



1067. Mrs. Churcher puts me in mind, that 

 I asked her what sort of a looking' man it was, 

 and that she said he looked like an Exciseman, 

 and that Churcher exclaimed : " Why, you 

 " fool, they don't have any Excisemen and such 

 " fellows here !" I never was at a county court 

 in America in my life. I was out shooting. 

 As to the house, it is a better one than he ever 

 entered, except as a lodger or a servant, or to 

 carry home tvorJc. The path, so far from being 

 trackless, was as beaten as the highway. The 

 gentleman who lived here before me was an 

 Englishman, whose name was Crow. But only 

 think of dirt, two feet deep, in a kitchen ! All is 

 false. The house was built by Judge Ludlow. 



