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respectable family are, I fear, lost to the public. Little Star- 

 light seems to have disappeared from that part of the country, 

 for some time; and in truth, I have no certainty that the well- 

 known pickpocket, Night Ray, who was transported to Botany 

 ^ay, some thirty years after the period of this tale, and was 

 in an attempt to escape, was the same person whose early 

 v.er is here recorded. But of one thing the reader may be 

 ^orfectly certain, that, whatever was the fortune which attended 

 any of the persons I have mentioned; whether worldly pros- 

 ! ty, or temporary adversity befell them, the real, the solid 

 j, the happiness of spirit, was awarded in exact proportion 

 -.h, as their acts were good, and their hearts were pure. 



THE END. 



