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OUR HEARTH AND HOMESTEAD.

BY

JOHN MILLS,

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AUTHOR OF "THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN," THE STAGE COACH,

OR THE ROAD OF LIFE," "THE ENGLISH FIRESIDE,"

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THE OLD HALL;

OR,

OUR HEARTH AND HOMESTEAD.

CHAPTER I.

"A merrier man,

Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal:
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-roving jest;
Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor)
Delivers in such apt and gracious words,
That aged ears play truant at his tales,
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse."

"HA!" exclaimed Job Sykes, drawing the breath through his clinched teeth, and pointing with the end of his pipe to the four horseshoes suspended in a row on the wall of his sit

VOL. III.

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