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a slight cold, and hoped soon to be better. 1!
thanked her for her kindness, and asked her,
whether she would let me continue to lodge in
her house, if I could get any work in the parish. —

She said that she liked my way of speaking,
and my manners, better than my appearance;
that my coming to her, as I had done, through
the storm, the last night, without hat or cloak,
had, to be sure, a strange look, but that she
had seen nothing amiss in my behaviour.

“‘T hope the time will soon come,” said I,
*twhen I shall be able to clear all this up to
you. But, in the mean time, if you will suffer
me to lodge in your house, you will do me the
greatest charity.”

‘“‘T cannot,” said she, “ find in my heart to
turn you out, so long as you speak so pro-
perly.”

I then enquired if it would be possible to
get any work in the village.

She asked me, if I had been used to out-doors
work,

1 said that I had not; but that I should be
thankful to be put in any honest way of getting
my bread.

“You do not look as though you were fit for
hard labour,” she said.

I answered, “We know not what we can do
till we have tried.”

**You seem very willing to do any thing,”
she replied. “I am going this morning to
carry this woollen which I have spun to Far-
mer Flemming’s: the farmer begins his hay-
harvest to-morrow; perhaps he will have no