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Mr Pocket took me into the house and showed me my room: which was a

pleasant one, and so furnished as that I could use it with co-room He then knocked at the doors of two other

similar rooms, and introduced me to their occupants, by naStartop, younger in years and appearance,

was reading and holding his head, as if he thought hie of knowledge

Both Mr and Mrs Pocket had such a noticeable air of being in somebody

else's hands, that I wondered who really was in possession of the house

and let them live there, until I found this unknoer to be the

servants It was a s

trouble; but it had the appearance of being expensive, for the servants

felt it a duty they owed to the, and to keep a deal of company down stairs They allowed a very

liberal table to Mr and Mrs Pocket, yet it always appeared to me that

by far the best part of the house to have boarded in would have been

the kitchen,--always supposing the boarder capable of self-defence, for,

before I had been there a week, a neighboring lady hom the family

were personally unacquainted, wrote in to say that she had seen Millers