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as he was a man of violent temper, — or 

 whether no meafures, which he could have 

 taken, would have been effedual in reprefling 



Co inveterate an evil. And yet in fome 



circumftances, thefe little tenements (incroach- 

 ments as they are, and often the nurferies of 

 idlenefs) give pleafure to a benevolent breaft. 

 When we fee them, as we fome times do, the 

 habitations of innocence, and induftry ; and 

 the means of providing for a large family with 

 eafe, and comfort, we are pleafed at the idea 

 of fo much utility and happinefs, arifing from 

 a petty trefpafs on a wafte, which cannot in 

 itfelf be coniidered as an injury. 



I once found, in a tenement of this kind, 

 an ancient widow, whofe little flory pleafed 

 me. — Her folitary dwelling flood fweetly in a 

 dell, on the edge of the forefl. Her hufband 

 had himfelf reared it, and led her to it, as the 

 habitation of her life. He had made a garden 

 in the front, planted an orchard at one end, 

 and a few trees at the other, which in forty 

 years had now fhielded the cottage, and almoft 

 concealed it. In her early youth (he had been 

 left a widow with two fons, and a daughter, 

 whofe llender education (only what fhe herfelf 

 could give them) was almoft her whole em- 

 ployment : 



