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16 BE TRUE.

as rest. This, in a country store, can
easily be obtained; and though Mr.
‘Wingate had no boys of his own, it
cannot be supposed that, with his
raisin casks and sugar barrels all

.open, he should want for any little

helps that boys can give.
Any person who could have seen

Mr. Wingate, of a summer day, sit-

ting in his arm-chair, at the store,
door, his short pipe, “for ever burn-
ing, yet unconsumed,” stuck into a
corner of his mouth, with boys of all
sizes waiting with him for a custo-
mer, would have felt with us, that
there is rest even here.

Just beyond the store, and on the
oppesite side of the street, was Mr.
Wiffzate’s house, rather more modern

in its appearance than most houses

in F

 

, yet leaving on the mind