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THE LANDLORD’S VISIT,
A DRAMA,

Boene.-A Room in a Farm-house. Betty, the farmer's wife ,
Fanny, a young woman grown up; Children, of various ages,
differently enployed.

Enter LANDLORD.

Landl. Goop morning to you, Betty.

Betty. Ah! is it your honour? How do you do,
sir? How are madam and all the good family ?

Landi. Very well, thank you; and how are you,
and all yours ?

Betty. Thank your honour—all pretty well. Will
you please to sit down? Qurs is but a little crowded
place, but there is a clean corner. Set out the chair
for his honour, Mary. |

Landi. TY think everything is very clean. What,
John’s in the field, I suppose ? |

Betty. Yes, sir, with his two eldest sons, sowing
and harrowing.

Landl. Well—and here are two, three, four, six ; al]
the rest of your stock, I suppose. AJl as busy at
bees! .

Betty. Ay, your honour! These are not times to
be idle in. John and I have always worked hard,
and we bring up our children to work teo. There’s
none of them, except the youngest, but can do some-
thing.

Landl. You do very rightly. With mdustry and
sobriety there is no fear of their getting a living, come
what may. I wish many gentlemen’s children had as
ood a chance. |

Betty. Lord, sir! if they have fortunes ready got
tor them, what need they care ?

Landl. But fortunes are easier to spend than to
get; and when they are at the bottom of the purse,
what must they do to fill it again?