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Mr. M.-Come, wife, let us What a picture! it seems as la our eleven acres. Oxen ploug asses feeding-robbers attack. men-one of them takes to his he runs away!-What is all this Ex.-Notice the progress scene, Sir, and we will attend explanation afterwards.

Mrs. M.-O dear, it lighte some of the sheep fall as if the struck with it!

Mr. M.-Look at the she see how they run away! The

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Mrs. M.-Here is another, hower, larger than the former, but I do ot understand it.

Mr. M.-Perhaps we may preently: here is a good homestead; a ne country. Bands of troops rush n the cattle-how they stretch out neir long legs and flee with vast apidity! I never before saw such; what do you call them?

Mrs. M.-Are they camels! Then think I shall find out your picture presently!

Mr. M.-Observe, Mary, how the trees bend almost to the ground, as if by the violence of the wind; the house totters-down it falls!

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Mrs. M.-Look at the man c ing out of the ruins! How frigh he looks! Well, Sir, I did not that I should have known any of pictures, but this, however, is enough!

Mr. M.-So I see it is now how did you find it out?

Mrs. M.-The camels told me it, and brought Job's afflictions recollection: but, Sir, I canno how you make all the things about as they do, that is qui prising!

Ex. And if taken in con with the history, I hope inst

Mrs. M.-Certainly. O tha

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f Job does contain so much experince, and so much instruction, that I ove it from my heart. I used to read t with great interest when I lost two of dear children with the measles my

and hooping cough. O it was a tryng time-one of them died-in about a fortnight another fell-then my dear Jacob, O what he did suffer! I never shall forget it; I thought all were going, while I was in that furnace Job was very precious to me, and so he has been ever since. Have you any more pictures about him, Sir?

Ex.-Yes, Madam, there is another now in the Camera.

Mrs. M.-Then I will look at it

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Mr. M.-I'll try to do so. ( they sit, Job and his three vi what a figure you have made Job! all over boils, sitting upo and surrounded by his proud, ing and miserable comforters. Ex.-Let a man pass from af to penury, though he be faint der afflictive dispensations, will generally meet with unk proaches; even those who ha tended to think themselves ho by his former friendship, will frequently charge him eithe want of prudence or actual e gance.

Mrs. M.-Exactly so, Sir, w it by experience; it is true,

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