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my fortune by the appearance or non-ap- 

 pearance of a little fim which lurks in 

 fome of it's holes. 



The curate I faw, and was introduced 

 to ; he refides in a mean-looking cottage 

 not far diftant, which feemed to confifl 

 of but few other rooms than a kitchen and 

 bed room, the latter of which ferved alfo 

 for his fludy. When I firft faw him he 

 was employed in reading in an old volume 

 of fermons. His drefs was fome what fin- 

 gular - y he had on a blue coat, which had 

 long been worn threadbare, a pair of an- 

 tique corderoy breeches and a black waift- 

 coat, and round his head he wore a blue 

 handkerchief. His library might have 

 been the fame that Hurdis has defcribed 

 in the Village Curate. 



Yon half-a-dozen fhelves fupport, vail weight, 

 The curate's library. There marfhall'd ftand, 

 Sages and heroes, modern and antique: 

 He, their commander, like the vanquifhed fiend, 



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