THE RURAL SGCRA.TE&. gg^ 



l^liypgg fald that he hsd taken him into his houfc from 

 compalBon, upon feeiDg him forced to beg 5 and that he 

 gave him only fmail wages and the ufe of his tabic, 

 which his work nearly repaid.— The other domeflic 

 was an orphan from a neighboring village, who begged 

 from houie to houfe, and whom Kliyogg took to his 

 home ; giving him in his family a good education. His 

 children and fervants remonftrated at firft: againfl this, 

 the latter even rcfufing to work with iuch a vagabond i 

 but our phiiofopher was refolute, notwithflanding the 

 youth was not without his faults. [In the fequel, in 

 defiance of the patience, care, and firmnels of Kli- 

 yogg, this young man eloped with a new fuit of clothes 

 upon his back.J 



p. 244 — 247. «..,... The rcfrefliment offered to 

 Dr. Hirzel was boiled milk and breadt, a piece of beef 

 from which fdup had been madel, bread, and laftly 

 wine from the vineyards of Kliyogg. The repaft was 

 feafoned with friendly difcourfe ; and with the prefence 

 of two grand fons of Kliyogg, and of a little boy which 

 Kliyogg had by his fecond wife ^ being the youngefl per- 

 Ton in the houfe. — New difcoveries v^ere now made 

 of the chara6ler of our phiiofopher o His fecond wife 

 appeared at table : a good antd laborious woman, 

 who by the fpirit and prudence which fiie had fhcwn 

 during her widowhood, and the manner in which (he 

 had educated her children from a little property whicii 

 was in debt ; had attached Kliyogg, and induced him to 

 marry her, after iiril quieting the repugnance of his 

 children to the match. As the wife during the enter- 

 tainment was Tometimes abfcnt to attend ,her kitchen, 

 Kliyogg in this interval took her young child upon his 

 knees, and amuled it as well as a nurfe could have done y 

 looking at it very affedlionatcly, and holding it in a more 



dexterous 



•f The French call this m'tlk joup, (fou} au J ait,) E. 



% This houilli is as common in fjmc parts of Svvitzcrlandj 8S t« 



France, E. 



