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wide-awake.' In the following- passage he gives us 

 something akin to the wonders related by his elder 

 brother in travels. 



' A report,' he says, ' was circulated all over Loretto 

 of a wonderful Madonna that had been discovered five 

 miles off within these last fifteen days, who was found 

 underground, and worked miracles every hour by the 

 dozen. The people of the house,' he continues, ' told 

 me that she got up in the night and rang the church 

 bells to call the people together, and did many other 

 wonderful things.' It appears from this veracious 

 history that its author was honoured with an invita- 

 tion to see this august and extraordinary person, but 

 declined the offer with great civility. It may perhaps 

 be that this mysterious and wonder-working lady, 

 though living close by, may, after all, have only been 

 a distant relation of the person I once heard of, who, 

 by occupation a timber-merchant, otherwise a match- 

 maker, for the sake of secrecy, and to escape the tax 

 proposed to be put on his manufactured goods by 

 Mr. Robert Lowe when Chancellor of the Exchequer, 

 worked out of sight, and pursued his daily avocation 

 two miles underground by the light of an enormous 

 diamond, which he carried secreted about his person 

 for the purpose. 



So much for the travels of great men and what 

 they have seen and heard, and what we may expect 

 to learn, in due time, from the experiences in foreign 

 parts of jockeys and trainers. AVe may now descend 



