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No. III. 

 EXCURSION TO RICHMOND. 



THE unsettled state of the weather, for se- 

 veral days after their return from Highgate, 

 prevented our youthful pedestrians from 

 claiming the performance of their father's 

 promise to indulge them in another excur- 

 sion. But. on the following Monday, the 



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sun, rising in unclouded majesty, promised 

 a continuance of fair weather; and, on 

 jvrining their worthy parent, at breakfast, 

 they were delighted to hear that it was his 

 intention to gratify them with a ramble to 

 Kichmond. The day being rather sultrv, 

 lie relinquished his original design of walk- 

 ing ; and, taking a boat at Westminster- 

 bridge, proceeded up the Thames to within 

 a short distance of that village, conversing 

 .on such topics as were suited to the age ancj 



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