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HISTORY

OF

SUSAN GRAY.

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IN the parish over which it has pleased God
to appoint me pastor, not far from the fair town
of Ludlow, on the bank of the beautiful river
Teme, are the garden, the little orchard, and
the ruins of the cottage, which, many years
ago, were rented by James Gray.

A little coppice on the hill-side shelters this
pleasant spot from the north wind, and a row
of large willows grows at the foot of the garden
by the river-side. I became acquainted with
James Gray when I first came to my living.
He was a pious young man, and was so happy
as to have a wife who feared God: the charac-
ter still given in this country by those who re-
member Mary Gray is, that she was a pious,
sober-minded young woman—g keeper at home,
(Tit. ii. 5,) as the apostle exhorts women to
be, and a most kind and dutiful wife.

James gained a comfortable livelihood by
working in his garden. He cultivated his land
with so much care, that he had the earliest and
best peas and beans, gooseberries and currants,

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