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completely fitted, and your eye, in perfect 

 combination, seizes its object with instant and 

 decided confidence. Let your now emanci- 

 pated limbs find an amusement in this exercise : 

 and hark ye, too ! do not you trouble your head 

 with my friend Mrs. ******'s very possible incli- 

 nation to scoff at all this, and to point the 

 moving finger of her scorn at this "second 

 edition," as she with most irreverent mockery 

 may be prompted to call it, " of uncle Toby's 

 crutch upon Trim's shoulder." Go on ! If you 

 are in dread of being knocked down with it at 

 your own fire-side, make good your retreat into 

 the garden, and intrench yourself: only go on, 

 and I will venture to prophesy to you, and pro- 

 mise to her, on the faith of whatever claim I at 

 present hold on her opinion (a pledge, as I con- 

 ceive, of no small amount), that you will, both 

 of you, find a wonderful difference during the 

 next season, in the produce of this winter-crop, 

 that is to be, of instruction ; the seeds of which 

 I am now studiously scattering. 



Having thus put you upon your guard against 

 interruptions, it only remains for me, with a 

 view to the more public destination of these 



