syllables or letters: indeed the stone itself has probably become half interred, as the earth around it has been disturbed and raised. Time corrodes our epitaphs, and buries our very tombstones. Returning pensively from my unsuccessful search in the churchyard to the little inn at Ingleton, I found there upon a sampler, worked in 1824 by Elizabeth Brown, aged 9, and framed as an ornament for the room which I occupied, some lines in as moral a strain of verse, as any which I had that day perused among the tombs. And I transcribed them for preservation, thinking it not improbable that they had been originally composed by Richard Guy for the use of his female scholars, and handed down for a like purpose, from one generation to another. This may be only a fond imagination, and perhaps it might not have occurred to me at another time; but many compositions have been ascribed in modern as well as ancient times, and indeed daily are so, to more celebrated persons, upon less likely grounds. These are the verses; Jesus permit thy gracious name to stand As the first effort of an infant's hand; And as her fingers on the sampler move, Engage her tender heart to seek thy love; With thy dear children may she have a part, And write thy name thyself upon her heart. CHAPTER XLVIII. A FATHER'S MISGIVINGS CONCERNING HIS SON'S DESTINATION. PETER HOPKINS'S GENEROSITY. DANIEL IS SENT ABROAD TO GRADUATE IN MEDICINE. Heaven is the magazine wherein He puts Both good and evil; Prayer's the key that shuts And opens this great treasure: 'tis a key Whose wards are Faith and Hope and Charity. Wouldst thou present a judgment due to sin? Turn but the key and thou may'st lock it in. Or wouldst thou have a blessing fall upon thee? Open the door, and it will shower on thee! QUARLES.