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sweetness of temper and politeness to one an- 

 other — always enjoying the first and best gift 

 of heaven, their own domestic happiness. These 

 were circumstances well calculated to produce a 

 long and lasting intimacy and friendship between 

 the parties. 



" In a few years after, one of the young Mr. 

 Vanlues, son of Mrs. Hunt, on his way from 

 the South, where he had been upon business, 

 called at Mr. Goode's and spent a week or two. 

 I well recollect the very joy that Mr. and Mrs. 

 Goode felt at seeing him — in having some little 

 opportunity of returning kindness for kindness. 

 In some few years after, in an unexpected mo- 

 ment, the old gentleman himself, Mr. Hunt, drove 

 up in the yard of Mr. Goode with a number of 

 the prettiest, cleanest limbed, best looking horses 

 I ever saw, and among them was the celebrated 

 Miss Slamerkin, the daughter of the * wonderful, 

 the old Cub mare.' 



" If I were gifted, Mr. Editor, in description, 

 I would ask the liberty of a small digression to 

 tell you something of the sparkling, endearing 

 vivacity evidently to be seen in their mutual 

 confidences — of the cordial salutations and shak- 

 ings of each other's hands. No little darkening 



