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what I call true religion, sir, always brings happi- 

 ness, somehow or other, with it. 



61 But I was a going to say, that this day my 

 poor Bessy had a letter from James, telling her, 

 that from some delay in the business, he had not 

 bought the farm he intended when he received 

 her refusal to go out to him. He says, c he felt 

 a little angry at first ; but he found he could not 

 help loving her the better, and that he would 

 bring his money to England, and be content 

 with a smaller farm, near her own friends, and 

 only work the harder for his excellent Bessy.' 

 He expected to be here about this time ; and 

 what between this sudden news, and the hope of 

 so soon seeing him, and her joy at his constancy, 

 she is a little unsettled, sir, to-day. But I pray 

 God to give them happiness together, and reward 

 her with children that will be to her, what she 

 has been to me." 



I have tried to tell you this story in his own 

 words, as well as I could. As soon as my uncle 

 had bespoken the baskets, we came away ; but 

 he desired to be told when Franklin comes. He 

 was very much touched with the poor man's ac- 

 count of all Bessy's goodness, so much, indeed, 

 that even in repeating it to my aunt, when we 

 came home, his voice quite faltered. 



3()th. I have just chanced to discover that 

 the bird which Dr, Buchanan described as 



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