63 GOOD LITTLB ROBIN. 39 contenting herself with remarking to all her acquaintances, that he was dreadfully cross-eyed. 'Mr. Richard Wild managed his property with great discretion. His first act was to purchase the old homestead, on which he was born. He was particularly kind to the poor; and old Sukey Lamson, the cripple, came in for a full share of his beneficence. The villagers were very much surprised, at his kind attention; when he became overseer of the .poor, to the old Deacon, who was then in the poor house. The mystery was easily explained,—Richard. Wild was a Christian. It was rather remarkable, that the last fraction of the Deacon’s estate should have been sold by himlo Richard Wild, and that it should have been the very meadow land which, under circumstances painfully similar, had been sold by his father to the Deacon himself. There was a prodigious stir in the village when Richard was married. Sukey, the cripple, was at the wedding, leaning on her old Crutch, and with a new gown and kerchief; and nobody had a gi eater right to he there.
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