LETTER XCIV 153 



turned out only a Eash : The Children are very well. Miss 

 Chardavoyne proposes to stay wth Us a great while : She is a 

 great Comfort to Us, for We have no near Neighbourhood. In 

 that Point & ye affair of Eoads we miss poor Sunbury sadly ; In 

 all others (except Distance from Friends) we have the advantage. 

 But that You may not think that I purpose to set down in my 

 Study (which I have already paper'd & painted & am now writing 

 in it) with a Pear of moving at all, I must carry You to my 

 Grounds (for Horses at present have very little to do wth Stables, 

 tho' I have Stabling for ten or twelve Horses,) & there shew You 

 my Beasts. Imprimis an old white Hackney about Twelve hands 

 high, Kitty by name, which I have twice mounted, & upon which 

 I purpose to meet You at "Wakefield, when You tell me You will 

 be there. Perhaps toward the general Election next Spring, for 

 then I must go to York to vote for Sr George, if it please God 

 that we live & do well : But before that Time, if You please, 

 and then too. Next, an old blind or hlinn mare with a little 

 Colt ; By Names Snip & Snap [Snorum is yet to come) : A Bay 

 Mare named Damoselle, which cost me 8 Pounds, for ye Team, & 

 to carry Double : A Shaft Horse for ye Cart, named Spark, value 

 Nine Pounds. I have likewise two Cows, by name, Nancy & 

 Halifax, to the great Joy of Mrs Mulso, & I hope great Benefit, 

 for She drinks warm Milk from them every Morning. Hogs, 

 Ducks, Chicken (or Pullen) & Pidgeons fill my Yard. 



But You will not be quite satisfied if You do not go into my 

 Garden: Sit down in ye Hall; You can see ye Ing & ye Cattle 

 grazing & a Grass Plot or two : Sit down in my Study ; You see 

 something of ye Garden & the Hall Stead, & ye Moat of the 

 old Hall, & a Glimpse of the Calder, & the opposite Hills & the 

 fertile & arable Fields upon them : What Need to go into ye 

 Garden ? You are a Connoisseur, not easily contented ; Better 

 sit still. — Yet we eat of our Strawberries & our cherries : There 

 are some Apricots, Peaches & Nectarines on the Walls : Apples, 

 Pears, Plumbs, & Nuts on ye Trees. There are Cucumbers of 

 ye white Sort, tho' few. Some Melons just set, tho' few. But 

 Sallads & Cucumbers in Plenty & of the best : and the Promise 

 of a Succession of proper Esculents thro' the Year. I have above 

 twenty Acres of good Pasture in Hand & at Hand : above twenty 

 Load of good Hay in my Stables of the last Year, & some of 

 the best in the Country ; the present Year promises but ill ; but 

 I am as well off as my Neighbours, and I beleive I can depend 

 upon four hundred pr ann : to make the Pot boil. 



And now, my dear Gil, having given You some little Account 

 of my Possessions, let me add, that tho' some disagreeable 

 Circumstances attend my Situation, I should be very ungratefull 

 to Providence and very unworthy of all that I enjoy, if I was 

 not greatly sensible of his Benefits : My Time of Life & growing 



