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who said that they ought to be put up over the 

 mantelpiece of every farmer in the kingdom : — 



Attend, ye farmers, to this tale. 



And when ye mend the broken rail. 



Reflect with pleasure on a sport 



That lures your landlord from the com-t, 



To dwell and spend his rents among 



The country folk from whom they sprung ; 



And should his steed with trampling feet 



Be m-ged across your tender wheat, 



Tliat steed, perchance, by you was bred, 



And yours the corn bv which he''s fed, 



Ah ! then restrain vour rising ire. 



Nor rashly cm'se the hvmting squire. — Wahburtox. 



" So, Devonian, tell us thy history, for metliinks 

 't^vill be somethmg strange.*' 



