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they were going, and proposed to him to 

 accompany them. You know, said he, 

 how ignorant I am of pictures, and of 

 every thing that relates to them ; but, at 

 all events, I shall have great pleasure in 

 walking with you, and shall not be sorry 

 to take a lesson of connoisseurship from 

 two such able masters. 



Mr. Hamilton had formerly been a great 

 deal at the house they were going to, and 

 undertook to be their guide : the three 

 friends however conversed so eagerly to- 

 gether, that they missed their way, and got 

 into a wild unfrequented part of the coun- 

 try; when, suddenly, they came to a ruin- 

 ous hovel on the outskirts of a heathy 

 common. In a dark corner of it, some 

 gypsies were sitting over a half-extinguish- 

 ed fire, which every now and then, as one 

 of them stooped down to blow it, feebly 

 blazed up for an instant, and shewed their 

 sooty faces, and black tangled locks. An 

 old male gypsey stood at the entrance, 

 with a countenance that well expressed his 

 three-fold occupation, of beggar, thief, 



