much-exhausted party enjoyed their meal and the warm room, after the cold and hunger they had for so many hours endured. They made their acknowledgments to their obliging host, and begged he would remain and partake of it with them, after being roused from his bed at such an unreasonable time.

"Oh," replied he, "persons of my calling must. expect these casualties. I am not hungry, but, for good fellowship's sake, will stay with you till your sleeping-rooms are ready."

So he did; and they soon fell into conversation, when Paul remarked, "I should think this house

may, perhaps, be the same that (many years back) was kept by one Gaius; for it seems an ancient

"It is so," answered the landlord;

"and was, as you say, once kept by Gaius, as honest a man as ever lived. But surely you are much too young to remember any thing of those days!"

"True," replied the other; "but my grandmother, with her family, once sojourned here some time, and I have heard it talked of by them."

"What was her name?" inquired Trueman.

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quite surprised and pleased, saying he was delighted to receive any descendants of that family under his roof; "for," added he, “that Gaius was an ancestor of my wife's, and her relations have spoken so highly of yours, that I almost seemed to know them."

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"Then," said Paul, "I hope that the friendship that existed between them may be renewed and petuated in ourselves."

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That it shall," replied their warm-hearted host. "At least I can answer for myself. I should like,

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too, to hear some particulars of your own life and journey hither, but must reserve them till to-morrow, for it is high time you should retire to rest.”

This was acceded to, and they parted for the night. Then did the weary travellers offer up their thanks in their nightly orisons for the welcome shelter they had found; and all slept soundly till the morning was far advanced, for it had commenced before they entered the inn.

When they met together in the sitting-room, they found an excellent breakfast provided for them; and their host introduced to them his wife Rachel, who received them as courteously as her husband had previously done, for she was a good-natured, pleasant-mannered woman; and the couple, who were

elderly (he being sixty and she two or three years younger), were much attached to each other. When the meal was done, the pilgrims were desired to relate something of their history, journey, and adventures on the road, which they willingly did, and were listened to with kind interest by their hosts. Then the former inquired how far it was to the Town of Vanity?

"We reckon it about half a day's journey," said Rachel.

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Then," said Grace, "I think we had better be going, for half of this day is nearly over now."

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But," rejoined Rachel," is it absolutely necessary you should go this day?"

"I hardly know," replied she, looking inquiringly at her husband, who answered her, laughing,—

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No, it is not, if you wish to stay longer'

"I am sure we wish it," said the good man of the house; "for now we are just become well acquainted, I do not like to part with you again so soon: no more does my wife, I am sure."

"No, indeed," returned she; "and though we have no curiosities to shew, such as they have seen at some other houses, I hope we may be able to make their time pass cheerfully."

"We have no fears on that head," said Paul; "but you must remember, my friend, what I told you at first, that our means are but small, and therefore we cannot, as we should wish, remunerate you as other travellers probably can and do."

"Once more I must beg you," answered Trueman, rather seriously, "to say no more on that subject. Do you think I should press you to stay if I intended to be paid for it? If you were entire strangers, or rich, it would be different; but you tell me you are not the latter, and I cannot consider you the former, so pray have no more scruples: for though I keep an inn, that is no reason why I may not invite visitors to my house, and it is as such only that I request your company, which (from there being no other persons here at present) we are more at leisure to enjoy."

After this the pilgrims had nothing more to say, but thankfully to accept the proffered hospitality, and it was accordingly agreed they should remain till that day week. Paul could not help feeling struck with the contrast of their warm reception here to their rejection at the first house he came to, and he asked the good Trueman if he knew the

landlord there, and whether it was much frequented, as he had told him?

Trueman. I know but little of him, though we are such near neighbours, for I believe he considers me greatly his inferior; but he told you right as to his inn being frequented, as I have heard it is so by those who also frequent the large Town of Vanity, and who care not what they spend in the pursuit of pleasure and gaiety.

Paul. I do not know the man's name, though I saw the sign over the door.

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"Why, you will say that the name and the sign agree pretty well together," answered his companion;

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the one being a Fox, and the other Sharp."

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"So they do," said Paul. 'And did the character of his predecessor, Lovegain, also tally with his name?"

Trueman. Yes; for he, like many others in his native town of Vanity, considered money as the one thing needful; and therefore his love of gain induced him to gamble, and being lucky, he built that house with the money thus acquired. But though rich enough, he could not (either from habit or the desire of further profit,) discontinue the pursuit, and soon fortune turned, he lost all, and was obliged to sell