. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. 31. Large was his bounty, and his soul -incere ,Heaven did a recompense as largely send :He gave to Misery all he had—a tear; He gaind from Heaven (twas all he wishd) a 32. No farther seek his merits to , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,(There they alike in trembling hope repose),The bosom of his Father and his God. 45G willsons fifth header. THE RAZOR-SELLER. Tlie following ia a fine rrading exercise, and pains phould be taken to give it the Bamedegree of naturalnes» that we should expect if the origin
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. 31. Large was his bounty, and his soul -incere ,Heaven did a recompense as largely send :He gave to Misery all he had—a tear; He gaind from Heaven (twas all he wishd) a 32. No farther seek his merits to , Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,(There they alike in trembling hope repose),The bosom of his Father and his God. 45G willsons fifth header. THE RAZOR-SELLER. Tlie following ia a fine rrading exercise, and pains phould be taken to give it the Bamedegree of naturalnes» that we should expect if the original scene had been acted beforeour eyes. 1. A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down,And offered twelve for eighteen pence,Which certainly seemed wondrous cheap,And for the money quite a heap, As every man would buy, with cash and sense. 2. A country bumpkin the great offer heard—Poor Hodge, who suffered by a broad black beard, That seemed a shoe-brush stuck beneath his nose—With cheerfulness the eighteen pence he proudly to himself, in whispers, said, This rascal stole^ the razors, I suppose. 3. No matter if the fellow he a that the razors shave; It certainly will be a monstrou
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