Excerpt from Learning Better Than House and Land: As Exemplified in the History of Harry Johnson and Dick HobsonThough the family had dined some hours before, a hot dinner of four or five dishes, fish, flesh, and fowl, was prepared for me with a degree of ex pedition, which could hardly have been surpassed, if they had been forewarned of my arrival. To keep me in countenance, covers were laid. For Mrs. Perry her son, and her daughters, who all sat down to table with me, and pretended i to eat. A' smilingbowl of rich-applef-wg followed by a glass of excellent mia-i deira, comfortably diluted my hearty meal; and the agreeable conversa tion of Mrs. Perry and her daughters -two sensible, pleasing young wol mam-who, in thosefqualities, pen, fectly resembled their amiable n'me ther - igav'e an additional zest'to' the entertainment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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