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he lived ; and when he died, his house and 

 all his land went to the eldest son. It 

 seems unnatural, but I believe it's true ; for 

 I know when my lord died, my lady and all 

 the children had to leave the park, and live 

 in a small house some miles off, and their 

 eldest son, a very wild fellow, came into all. 

 Poor Miss Laura had to go out for a gover- 

 ness, and came into a family, not far from 

 our squire's, to teach their daughters. The 

 master was as nice kind a man as ever 

 lived ; but the lady hadn't been brought up 

 with gentry, and nobody could bear her, 

 she was so mean and unhandsome in every 

 thing she did. 



The night Miss Laura came to our cot- 

 tage so wet she had been sent to a house a 

 good bit off, to get her out of the way, be- 

 cause some young ladies were coming to the 

 Grange ; and visitors liked her company 

 more than they did her betters'. She did 

 not have a great deal of money given her, 

 though she could talk a many strange lan- 

 guages ; and has made us stare many a time 

 to hear her sing to our children songs of 

 people that live over the seas, and so natural, 

 too, it seemed no trouble at all to her. But 



