34 WILD DICH AND 5.8 the sexton assured him his parents were buried; though nothing marked the place but the crowning sod. The inscription was wonderfully simple, and intended, not as an unmerited honor to the dead, but as a simple memorandum for himself. It was comprehended in five words, with his own initials, and ran thus: “My poor Father aj$d Mother. R. W.” He was very kind to old Sukey, who was very poor, but who kept heiSelf from dependence on the town for'support, by hpr own industry, and the assistance of her daughter Margaret; who, with an old house dog, were the only tenants of the little low cottage, at the bend of the river. It is now eighteen years since Richard returned to the village. Few villages, in the same number of years, have undergone such remarkable changes as Tippletown. It is changed in name and in nature. It is now called Waterville, and not a single license is granted within its bounds, for the sale of ardent spirit. It is hard, as the proverb saith, for an old dog to learn new tricks: Squire Hawk,
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