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ENGLISH LETTER-WRITER.

PART I.

LETTERS ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR SUBJECTS.

CHAPTER I.

NARRATIVE LETTERS.

LETTER I.

Mr. Gay to Mr. Fenton.-Account of two young per sons killed by lightning.

Stanton-Harcourt, Aug. 9, 1718.

The only news that you can expect to have from me here, is news from Heaven, for I am quite out of the world; and scarcely any thing can reach me, except the noise of thunder, which undoubtedly you have heard too. We have read, in old authors, of high towers levelled by it to the ground, while the humble valleys have escaped. But to let you see that the contrary to this sometimes happens, I must acquaint you, that a high and most extravagant heap of towers, in this neighbourhood, stands still undefaced, while a cock of barley, in our next field, has been consumed to ashes. Would to God that this heap of barley had been all that had perished!

Beneath this little shelter, sat two much more constant lovers, than ever were found, in romance, under the shade of a beech tree. John Hewet, was a well-set man, of about five and twenty; Sarah Drew might be rather called comely than beautiful, and she was about

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