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have heard the following lines recited by one who said 

 that they ought to be put up over the mantel-piece of 

 every farmer in the kingdom." Their sound sense and 

 good advice are so unquestionable, that I cannot refrain 

 from giving them further publicity. 



*' Attend, ye farmers, to this tale ; 

 And when ye mend the broken rail. 

 Reflect with pleasure on a sport 

 That lures your landlord from the Court, 

 To dwell and spend his rents among 

 The country folk, from whom they sprung. 

 And should his steed, with trampling feet, 

 Be urged across your tender wheat, 

 Tliat steed, perchance, hy you was bred, 

 And youf'S the corn by which he's fed : 

 Ah ! then, restrain your rising ire, 

 Nor rashly curse the hunting squire." — Warburton. 



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