[SECOND SERIES.] 



XIII. 

 ' FARM TO LET.' 



THE town of Bogmoor is not famous in History : nor 

 indeed geographically. It may not perhaps have 

 challenged a very responsible amount of public notice 

 hitherto, either for its own merits in general, or for 

 that reflected virtue in particular, which has cast a 

 queer distinction upon Marlborough, Wellington, and 

 a few other ' small towns with great names ' that 

 might be mentioned ; and that sometimes are men- 

 tioned, in fact, with a yawn of careless wonder, 

 why ' Duke of Blenheim ' and ' Duke of Waterloo ' 

 would n't have done as well, perhaps better, than 

 tying on the name of an obscure town to the laurels 

 of the hero, like a penny ribbon on a prize Long- 

 horn. 



But however, that is not the present subject, 

 indeed as far from it as possible, for the real point 



