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it well, to make the blood circulate, with a 

 coarse towel ; — now, viiss must wash her 

 face, or rather not wash it at all, with cream, 

 or some other cursed nastiness; and breakfast 

 on the finest tea and sugar, and a delicate, 

 small, thin piece of buttered toast ; and not 

 eat heartily, for fear of growing too gross, 

 and spoiling her complection. Formerly 

 the lasses, in fine weather, used to dance on 

 the green, with the lads ; but now miss is 

 taught to dance, and to sing, and play on 

 the piano-forte : then she must attend all 

 the county balls : — the captain gets ac- 

 quainted with her; mamma remarks, what 

 an attentive, polite, and elegant man, the 



captain is. The captain dances with miss, she dances 



with the Cap- 

 frequently, and at last, when the regiment t^^uni^ bIus 



marches, the captain dances off with her, 



and she is never heard of in the county 



again. 



In former days, farmers' daughters went 



in a cart to market, to sell butter, eggs, 



poultry, young pigs, &c. : now they are 



driving all over the county in elegant taxed- 



carts; visiting, romping, and rioting all 



