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THE HONEST FARMER.
SCENE I. The Farmer's House.
SCENE I.
AFTER having laboured so hard during the best part of our lives, thus at last to fall into poverty! To what pur|pose is it, that we have never ceased our cares and pains for a single moment, in or|der to breed up our children with credit? If they were but of an age to earn their own bread, it would be something! My dear chil|dren, it is not for myself, it is for you that I shed tears; in losing our cattle we have lost our all. What remains is far from be|ing sufficient to pay our landlord. What is to become of us? If my good husband did not support my sinking courage, I should