HEADLONG HALL.
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Mr. Milestone.
Beautifully laid out in lawns and clumps, with a belt of trees at the circumference, and an artificial lake in the centre.
Mr. Mac Laurel.
Exactly, Sir: an' shall keep it a' for his ain sel; an' the other mon shall divide his half into leetle farms of twa or three acres———
Mr. Escot.
Like those of the Roman republic, and build a cottage on each of them, and cover his land with a simple, innocent, and smiling population, who shall owe, not only their happiness, but their existence, to his benevolence.
Mr. Mac Laurel.
Exactly, Sir: an' ye will ca' the first mon selfish, an' the second diseenterested; but the pheelosophical truth is seemply this, that the ane is pleased wi' looking at trees, an' the
