[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 no- 

 tice 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, with a yawn of careless wonder, why ' Duke 

 of Blenheim' and ' Duke of Waterloo' wouldn'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 Longhorn. 

 But ho\vever, that is not the present subject, 



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