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faux pas, was soon forgotten. In the 

 meantime, I began to grow weary of 

 my occupation. The coach, like all 

 others not now supported by the war, 

 loaded light during the winter months; 

 the passengers some above, some below, 

 generally offered me the gratuity, and 

 I was not sufficiently initiated to ask 

 for it. 



My landlord offered to relieve me from 

 the lease of the farm, knowing full well 

 that the capital I had expended would 

 soon invite another tenant. Not being 

 enabled to indulge in my former 

 amusements, without neglecting my daily 

 business, I resolved to leave the neigh- 

 bourhood ; therefore making both the 

 farm and the stock of horses, har- 

 ness, &c., over to my father, I bid a 

 long farewell to my native county, re- 

 solved to seek in the metropolis employ- 

 ment on some road where I was not 



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