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"Not I, because I'm an out-door servant, but master eats it in his own family, then he has it washed and cleaned, and kiln dried; and I heard him say, as it turned out beautiful." Why, it seems you are very fond of your master ?" "Yes I be, I never had a kinder, and never expect to get such another." Oh! I suppose he lets you have your own way.' Why, not at first, but now I likes his ways so well, that I commonly mind he saves me time, he saves me labour, because he gives us all a right way to do every thing." Well, this is a famous man, this master of your's; pray, what is his name?" Kemp." Farmer Kemp. Oh, oh," said the landlord, "I have heard of him; that's he that wheedled his old master out of all his property, and cheated Moss's sister Farmer Finch's wife that was killed. Hardly could the carter wait the conclusion of this short speech. My master wheedle, my master cheat; I'd fight the best man in England who should presume to say it; I have known master ever since he was a boy, and I know all his outgoings and his incomings, and that is more than any body here does, I believe. I have heard them as knows very well, say that master fretted more when he got that ́ money than if he had lost it."

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Landlord. "But you won't say as Mrs. Finch was delighted with it, you won't say as Miss Jemima and Mr. James were pleased." "Yes, I will say that; and for why? because I know it. Why, have not Mr. James been living at master's house for these three months? and have not Mrs. Finch and Miss Jemima just left? You know that, don't you, Tommy?" "To be sure I do. And Giles, what do you think I heard Madam Finch say when she got on her horse; and I held 'em, you know?" "I can't tell," said Giles. " Why, master was standing, putting things comfortable as she sat on her horse, gathering up the bridle in her hand. • God bless you, Mr. Kemp,' says she; thank you for your kind care of me and mine. God will bless you, you good young man.'

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Why," says the landlord," that don't seem as if she was very angry, to be sure; but is not your master a Methodist? Is not he one of the saints? Don't he pretend to be better than his neighbours?" "I don't know what he pretends to," said Giles," but he certainly is better than his neighbours, I am sure there is no farmer like him in our parish, I thinks he is almost as good as the minister." "Ah, that's what I have heard," said the landlord," and I have heard that he and the

said, "Who made thee a ruler and a judge;" and the young Michael, like many other mentors, felt his consequence some way taken down, he could not tell how.

Rose had been very anxious for her mistress's interest, making as much butter as she possibly could, and very sharp with the key of her dairy, and which is very common in such cases, where people are too anxious to be rich, some suspicion rose in Esther's mind lest the weight of the butter should be insufficient-it never had been yet; but on this morning, as she walked through her orderly dairy, and saw her beautiful pounds of butter lay side by side, at eighteen pence each pound, her heart misgave, and she said, "This would indeed be an injury to God's cause, if the Brow farm butter should want in weight;" and when she weighed it, which she did most carefully, though it could not be said to want weight, it went so very close, that Esther reduced the three-and twenty pounds to one-and-twenty, having it all made up again to Rose's discontent, though she uttered not a single word; but after Esther went out of the dairy, Ann Medway, in passing, heard Rose say, "My mistress is a deal too particular." This was quite enough, she treasured it in her

mind, and it was laid by for some convenient opportunity.

But this care of Esther's to maintain a good conscience towards God and towards man was acknowledged even by enemies; no one ever thought of weighing their butter but were sure to walk up, as soon as the servant appeared in the market. People were even waiting for it-both quality and quantity recommended it. The same if Michael had a horse to sell, he would be telling the defects before the person who was buying it inquired; but this brought its own blessing in confidence of character, and our hero seemed in some danger of that woe which is denounced against those of whom all men speak well. In his own bosom he had many conflicts, a deepened sense of his own depravity, and much of the internal conflict with which a sincere Christian is often harassed; and this had been strengthened by a visit to his old and reverend pastor; that he should be struggling who had been a guide and a light to others; that he should tremble, who had been feet to the lame. we have a subtle enemy, who will make even our humility a snare; but as it is frequently found under the attendance on a faithful ministry, that there is deliverance for the captive soul, so it was here. Mi

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chael had not even confided his discouragement to his bosom friend; he knew she would suffer, and he feared the contagion of doubt. In his uneasy_state_he would not even speak to Mr. Lascelles, but he was most fervent in prayer, and a sermon of this good man from these words was at this time a great consolation. "Deliver him from going down into the pit, for I have found a ransom.

Mr. Lascelles dwelt so much upon the security of this ransom, the certainty that it was paid, the sufficiency of the sum, the complete satisfaction of the creditor, to whom it was due; and all this was not mere assertion, but proved by rich scripture quotation. Thus, for instance: "deliver him from going down into the pit," the desire, on the part of God, that man should be delivered, then in the fulness of time he came who should deliver, "Lo, I come to do thy will." Again: the confirmation that light was in the world, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased;' then, that the whole is fully completely accomplished, was declared by those words: "It is finished." Lastly, all was clear of him who promised. Yet again, there might be doubt, there might be fear on the part of those who were to receive these blessings, let such depend on these promises,