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WHEREIN IS SET FORTH THE BLESSEDNESS OF A HELOT'S NURTURE.

INTRODUCES THE READER TO A PHILANTHROPIC PARSON AND A GREAT SQUIRE.

EXHIBITS MORE PHILANTHROPY, OF A MIXED SORT, PLUS A LITTLE FIGHTING—THE "ALLOTMENT" CURE FOR HUNGER.

DISCLOSES AN EXCELLENT, INFALLIBLE AND ARISTOCRATIC PLAN FOR MANUFACTURING CRIMINALS.

MAKES KNOWN THE EXCELLENT QUALITIES OF JAIL LIFE.

IS OF THE NATURE OF A SERMON.

MAY INDICATE TO THE READER, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, SOME OF THE ADMIRABLE ARRANGEMENTS WHEREBY ENGLAND OBTAINS MEN FOR A STANDING ARMY.

INTRODUCES THE READER TO VERY ARISTOCRATIC COMPANY.

TELLS AN OLD, OLD STORY.

BRINGS THE READER BACK TO THE RESPECTABILITIES OF THE PARSONAGE.

REVEALS THE SORROWS OF A MERE PEASANT MAIDEN.

WHEREIN WE SEE BREEDING—HIGH AND LOW.

THROWS A LITTLE LIGHT ON A SUBJECT SOMETIMES UNCTUOUSLY CONDESCENDED UPON BY PREACHERS OF "WORDS."

BRINGS THE DOUBTLESS RELUCTANT READER ONCE MORE INTO CONTACT WITH A "GALLANT" WOOER, AND GIVES FURTHER PROOF OF THE DIFFICULTY WHICH BESETS ALL ATTEMPTS TO HARMONISE TRUTH AND FASHIONABLE "CHRISTIAN" RESPECTABILITY.

IS TOO BAD FOR DESCRIPTION.

TELLS OF A BETTER QUEST THAN THAT OF THE HOLY GRAIL.

HAS IN IT, ALAS! NOTHING THAT IS NEW.

POINTS ONCE MORE TO THE MORAL OF THE POET'S SAYING,—"SWEET ARE THE USES OF ADVERSITY."

OPENS TO THE INWARD EYE THE CHASTENED JOY THAT GLOWS, WHEN THE LOST ONE IS FOUND, IN THE SOUL OF HIM "WHOSE GRIEF WAS CALM, WHOSE HOPE WAS DEAD."

MAINTAINS THAT FOR THE WRONG SIN-BURDENED MORTAL NO SLEEP IS SO SWEET AS THE LAST LONG SLEEP OF ALL.

BRINGS US ALL TO THE JOURNEY'S END.

The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant

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