BE TRUE. 15

The old meeting-house, the burying-
ground, the solitary street—all now

are among the things that were. Alle
are there now—the white church, the’

  

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new stones, the iron rails, the picket +

fence, the factory, the mill—all are ail

there. But it is of other days we
would write; will you'listen ?

I had not told you of the long
.street running through the Middle of
the town, where was the tavern, with
its sign of a gilded globe; of the shops
__shoemaker’s, joiner’s, and cabinet
maker's; and, more than all, of the
store, that place of places, which was
furnished with much more than the
mind could at once conceive, Mr.
Wingate was the sole proprigtor “of
this bewildering variety of all things

under the sun; an easy, gopd-natured

man, who loved nothing so’ nuch

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