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total negledl of his little affairs — his family 

 without any overfeer, brought up in idlenefs, 

 and dirt — and his wife, for whom he had no 

 means of providing either affiftance, or cure, 

 lying fo wretched an objeft always before him. 



' We left him ftrongly impreffed with his 



calamity ; which appeared to be a more fevere 

 vifitation, than the hand of heaven commonly 

 inflidts. 



On relating our adventure at fupper, we were 

 informed, that the man, whofe appearance of 

 fenfibility had affedted us fo much, was one of 

 the moft hardened, mifchievous fellows in the 

 country — that he had been detected in fheep- 

 ftealing — that he had killed a neighbour's 

 horfe in an ad: of revenge — and that it was 

 fuppofed, he had given his wife, who was 

 infamous likewife, a blow in a quarrel, which 

 had occafioned her malady. — Through fuch 

 ftrange fatality do mankind become themfelves 

 the miniflers of thofe diflreffes, which Provi- 

 dence would never have infli<5ted upon them. 



The next morning we took a particular view 

 of the beautiful fcenery around us -, of which, 



the 



