LETTEB C 165 



Nature ; the entertainment of your Friends, in which You shine ; 

 & in ye Disposal of your Sister. Our hearty Congratulations 

 attend her, & all of You on this Occasion. May She have long 

 & lasting Happiness in her new State. Her Temper & Conduct 

 must, I am sure, very much indear her to ye man, whom She 

 has honoured with her Choice. But what will you do for a 

 Housekeeper ? or have You look'd 'till You have found One who 

 will more than supply her Place ? 



Mrs Mulso & Myself are now beginning to try how we can 

 live alone, in a Country Place, at a great Distance from all our 

 old Friends. I fancy, if it pleases God to let us enjoy our 

 Health, that we shall do very well. Our neighbours, such as 

 they are, are very obliging & chearfull. Our Children are lively 

 & entertaining : Our House substantial, roomy, & well situated ; 

 our human Conveniences pleutifull & good. "With all this, we 

 must be wanting to Ourselves, if we repine at our Lot. 



Mrs Mulso has sold her Horse to my Father, whom we were 

 forced to accommodate with One, his own Mare remaining a 

 Cripple in my Grounds. But She has not learnt much of the 

 Yorkshire jocky-ship; for she let him go for ten Guineas, & 

 he was worth more, tho' he has had a Stroke of ye Palsey in 

 his Mouth. Our Hares are not in such Plenty this Year as they 

 were last, which makes me get on Horseback with not so good a 

 Eelish ; I have killed but 7 brace & half as yet ; & I have been 

 out 3 Hours without seeing One. I still paddle on wth my little 

 grey Mare : I am afraid of this animam Sulphure tinctam in a 

 new One. 



I am very sorry for ye poor Account of your Uncle's House- 

 hold, & Mrs Mulso enters deeply into ye Situation of poor Miss 

 Bracebridge, as I am sure I ought to do myself, being very far 

 from being recover'd of the same Complaints, of which I have 

 lately been very poorly. I long to see your alterations & 

 Improvements at Selborne, tho' I have a pretty strong Idea 

 of them. If I was to do anything here, I must do so much that 

 I should be ruined. I therefore content Myself wth my Farmer 

 like Garden, which has it's Beauties fm without itself, by being 

 a hanging one and calling-in the Country. We were very 

 successfull in our Harvest in this Country, it being all got in 

 very well and long ago in all Kinds of Grain. We have had 

 Inundations of Kain of late; Some mischief was done near 

 Sheffield, but none near Us, tho' the Papers mentioned the neigh- 

 bourhood of Wakefield. 



We have bought a Bell, so You may use Our's 'till we come 

 to fetch it. It may be a good Item to your Hermits to come 

 down & fetch their Pittance. 



I thank You for recording our Friendship with so much 

 warmth. It is, in my Esteem, One of those Blessings of God, 



