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this family will bel But I am veiy sorry to tell you 

 that Jenny disappointed me after aU. I went there 

 about six weeks afterwards, and found the pig splash- 

 ing and dashing the potato wash about the door of the 

 kitchen ; six couple of chickens were picking vip what 

 he threw about : a goat was tearing the woodbine and 

 roses that I had myself nailed on the front wall ; and, 

 what was worse, three panes of glass were knocked 

 out, (I believe by that same rascally goat) and "The 

 Hurler's" old breeches and his father's wig were clap- 

 ped into their place, just to keep out the wind, and 

 Jenny herself, instead of a tight bed gown, had a dirty 

 night cap and a long draggled-tail go^v'n, as black as 

 the pot ; to say nothing of the children, who looked 

 as if' they had'nt been troubled with comb or soap 

 since the Judges had paid them the visit. " Oh I Jenny 

 Dempsey," says I, what a sample of house-keeping 

 you are after showing me this blessed day!" — 

 Well, what was her excuse, do you think, for all this 

 slovenUness and neglect? She didnt expect me tha4 

 day! if she ktiew tJiat I was conung, the dirty cap and 

 the dirty long-tailed gown would have been off, and 

 the children washed, and the pig in the sty, and the 

 floor swept, and the windows mended, and the wig 

 and the breeches decently hung upon the peg in the 

 bed-room. This is precisely the kind of excuse 

 which one-half of you would offer for every day fil- 

 thiness; but beheve me, tidiness wiU cost very little; 

 method will keep all things together as they should 

 be, if once properly set going. 



This business of Jenny Dempsey has taken up 

 more space than I intended, so that I can only add a 

 request that you will keep your dwelling-houses, g-ar- 

 dens and offices always in order, remembering the old 

 story, " that for want of a nail, the shoe was lost, for 

 want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a 

 horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain 

 by the enemy I" Be clean in your persons, ye women 

 especially; tidily dressed like farmers' wives and 



