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and rational enjoyment of my vacant hours. 

 The object of attraction, I soon found, 

 was one of a large and respectable family 

 in the town, and I may say, without fear of 

 being accused of partiality or vanity, four- 

 teen finer specimens of the genus homo 

 never sat round a parent's substantially 

 furnished board. It was well, too, to 

 witness the order that was observed in this 

 graduated assembly. Cleanliness and de- 

 corum, obedience and affection, contentment 

 and good humour, animated their bright 

 blue eyes, and set off to perfection their fair 

 and rosy complexions. There was nothing 

 either Grecian or Roman in the contour of 

 their countenances, or in their features 

 neither in them would the sculptor desire 

 anything to commend his art ; for the same 

 impression would guide his chisel as did the 

 first sight of our Saxon ancestors strike St. 

 Augustine when he exclaimed, " Non Angli 

 sed Angeli" The first time I was admitted 



