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tllree. Lucy must ham a d . g e , though, to trLc hrr Odwgc. I didnet bomw E& the money: my father 1 out.

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Mrr lVd+. Where could rach a met flnd dwellhp P G e q . Ark the farmers. Didn't they let an one

q u a t on their ground fm a pound ? And one ?udhoIe emted, up rtarted another : three m four famllier, toq

I slleltered in erah of these denr of dirt and vice; m o b of filthy little u r c h i ~ rarhing for ever ftom them, enough to p o h n the air m d frighten every horw upon the road.

dirr W M r . How came the landlord to permit such practiwa ? How was it that an tenant \sat allowed to rho" a cpbia more on hi8 lung than w u required to houre his labounn ? Eh, George ?

George. Oh, of arm I knew where you wore mminp to all this tirue. It's my h a l t 1 all me I always mc 1 Evcrything wrong my doing! How, in the name of p i e n = , mdd I help i t ? I war not here. I was In

aria ; I - on the Hhine ; I was in London-Dablin- half over the world ! A man Ir not to stick for ever la one plac4-might M well be a cab- I I couldn't be always hew ; and when my back wns turned, the riid rs they pleued with Tarn Kavanagh, a verycaplta~fellow, but a devilish bad agent.

dlrr Wd ht. Why keep him nu agent? Beorgs, dh, you as he9m a clever Nlow : he*. good-

natuml too, and I'm naed to him ; and, in ahort, he-I -you sec-

Afjr Wvight. He has lent you money, and you can't repay him ?

George. I don't exactly know how we stand. I believe he h~ made advanm on the rents. I must look over the accounts some of them days, and thcn well know the wont.

Mrr Wright. To come bnck to the rquatterr. Though you were not always here, you came home rometimer. Why did you not then ree what was going on, and endeavour to set right all you thought war amiar?

(Iko*gc. Jurt am if a man had nothing elme to do but to wandcr about among mud-cabins. When I WM here, I arme for the hunting : three timer a week out with the hounds left little leisure for other thingr. Therewere my plantation0 for the idle dnyn, and the new avenue, and a number of improvements in ahort, which I nm sure you and my uncle, aa model landlords, ought to bc pleused to henr of. Then Lucy gets low without society ; we have always a good deal ofcompany during the winter; and in the summer we were off somewhere ; so I'm sure I don't know where you'd flnd time for all theae inrpc- tiona.

Alrr Wright. From not making time, you see, my denr nephew, what you hare brought yourself to-not only yournelf. but nll your neighbours, for we can't separate our individual interest fmnl thnt of the com- n~nnity. One cnmless landlord a5ect8 the welfare of all. Many careless landlords cause ruin. The poor-rates have only carried out into action the law which binds ns all, rich and poor, together, makes us all dependent on cacll other ; and it only presms to heavily on ur now becauso r e hare hitherto neglected to recogaise the principle. You pay flre-and-ninepence out of your pound, dear (feorge, only to relieve tho misery you have ansisted to crcate, and you are not quite ruined by thin bx, although it is at pment excessive. You hare four- te~n-and-threepence lef?.

Ckmgs. Have I, indeed, my dear, wise aunt? Where are all the other taxea ?

Airs Wright. At tho very outside, the odd two-and- tl~recpence ail1 pay then1 ; 80 you still have twelve shillings remaining of yoor pound, which will go a great way with management them cheap times.

George. The deuce I have. More than that Is due on mortgges.

dfra Wright. Then it is the mortgages that have swamped you-not the poor-laws. You must hare sunk at some time ; the poor-rates have only hartened the ruln. Put the saddle on the right horae, dear George: don't acme the poor-rates ; the rnln muat

- EDINBURGH JOVBNAL

I borrowed before me, m d my p n d f . W behe him, nnd my great-grandfather berm him, for d that I knw. I d deuced hard on me, thowh, to ham ta bear dl & wnwquencer.

M r r Wright. It ir w, e m tbmgh po ht ym own helping hand to it. Bnt p u know that w ~t m# be : and thew conreqnencea having rhown themulim, d l that is left for you ir to meet them h o e l y .

Ge e. I wish I knew what to do1 Poor L u q ! tad a gnaght-hearted creature, w d to every l a u q wenlth could glve her-

Nrs Trigla. Don't fear for Lucy. There are d q and true,and warm feeling8 hennth dear h y ' r gaiety, I and perhaps her frivolity, which make k dmemhg (d our full confidence. I only regret that yon && I

gave till now withheld it, f o c Ceorga I never tllonght, you we, that i t wwld m e

to a cruh. I alwayr expected #mething WOM turn ( 1 up--that at myrate all would 1-t for my the, fbr Tm 1 managed somehow to keep ua going ; kridn, I hated 11 the iden of vexing her.

Afrs Wright. In fact you never thought at all. Fon ' I wanted what you must gather n o w - a m g e to meet I your di.cu1ties-md he- Wen, my d y l r c y , do you think you can make a good pbor man'm mfe? 1 L I ~ I r i l l try, dear aunt-I have Med. I have meen or some time that matte- were not going well I with us ; that George wam u n m l r t a b k ; md I have already made several changea in the homehold, with r i view to a stricter economy. I w a s never very upa- I sire myself. I am nure a hundred a year paid dl my I dressmakers' bills; by keeping a rk i lk l maid I cm earily reduce this to flhp, for we rhall hud ly ba abk to r id t so much aa we used to do. I have alw diuniwed the governern, and the hourekeeper, m d the u p laundry-maid. I did t l~ i r rome weekm ago: and I am quite plearcd to flnd I can rough i t ro well without them, for I rerlly hardly mi18 them. I like tcrehimg the children ; they are w very happy with me. Nnm actr as housekeeper, which mhe cm very well d a nor that baby walks ahut . We might part with the ba th too. I think : keep only one man in the h o n e

Alra Wright. How many r enmta do you p m to keep altoxetl~er? 1

Lriiy. Only one in the nursery beaidea none ; one 1 laundry -maid ; one housemaid ; a kitchen-maid, who can help the other. occarionally, ar 'he will hare lerr to I do herrelf than fornjerly. I ought perhapa to part with 1 the cook: her wages are very high; but @he ir w, f ln t I rate.

Gcorge. You can't think of parting with the oook, 1 Lucy ?-she's equal to any Frenchman.

Lrcg. KO, George, I don't think I can p u t with tlle cook, for I really consider a god cook mnmical : we I will therefore keep her, and the foam m d ~e pantry-boy for dirty work, and my maid, w h w nndle is invaluable. This will be a gr& duct ion , Amt Anne?

Mra W'right. Immense, my dear: three eerrmtr md I tho governees diemisred, leaving only nloe to py md feed. NOW. George, on your part? I

George. Really my expnser are oa small, I dm't in I tho lenst know how to reduce them. The a p n t of course must stay to manage the property, the bailiff to 1 watch my rerpctable tenantry, the rteward to lwk I after the farm. Without a herd we ehonld ham but a queer account of the stock, without r m e n - no reg- 1 tables, without lnbourcrs no crop*; but I d m s a y them ' are some su rnurneraries who mi h t be dispenoed with. I

Jury. ~ n g d , O a r p , I think t i em m; p n i c n l d p , as we mnat lire more quietly.

Gory. Well, 111 nee about i t : wnd far Daylc a d coneult with him. I

3frr Fright. And your rtable, k r g e P Ceoye. Oh that coata nothing-how m for

nothing now: besides I've none this ycar aim-Id I