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good principles ;" and then, giving me a few 

 little books, she bade me give her best re- 

 spects to the squire ; and I took my leave of 

 her, and soon after of my kind friends. He 

 shook me heartily by the hand, and said he 

 was glad I had paid ? em this visit ; and she 

 seconded all he had said. I'd nearly kissed 

 her ; for she had been so open and so kind, 

 that I felt as if I was bidding good-bye to a 

 daughter or a sister. I felt very dull as I 

 left the gate ; but when I was on the coach, 

 the wheels wouldn't go round half fast 

 enough, I wanted so much to get back to 

 my Birdwood again. Hasn't England some- 

 thing to be proud of in such gardeners? and 

 who can wonder at the place they take ? 



I've often noticed men can talk a deal 

 better than they can think, and can measure 

 out other people's corn, and give good mea- 

 sure, and sell it cheap too. If bread's dear, 

 the farmer ought to be made to thresh out 

 his ricks, and send to market all the wheat 

 in his granary. If a man's poor, he ought 

 to be kept, and well too, never mind how he 

 got so, the English of which is, that the 

 careful ought to keep the spendthrifts. Then, 

 again, what notions these kind of people 



