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town, and tnrn master for himself, a kind 

 of market-gardener. 



Poor Miss Laura ! trouble did her and 

 all of us good ; it was just like a heavy fall 

 of snow over the spring flowers, it kept us 

 in our right places; and when it melted 

 away, we never enjoyed the sunshine more. 

 She afterwards married very well, to a young 

 farmer ; but she soon died, in childbed, and 

 lies in our village churchyard. He's gone 

 away over the seas, so I've heard say ; but 

 wherever he is, he'll never forget her, nor 

 I either, the generous young lady : I wish 

 there were more like her. 



When she went away, the evening we 

 got back and I'm telling of, the foreman 

 came in, and I got my lantern, and we walked 

 round the houses together. There seemed a 

 good deal of alteration, and the plants looked 

 uncommonly well ; but I laid it all to the 

 candle-light ; but next morning I found 

 there was no mistake; the man that had 

 gone away was a deal cleverer than I was. 

 I could see that with half an eye. Every 

 thing was in the best of order, and so many 

 new plants. So, said I, it will not do to get 

 behindhand : and ever since I've took in all 



