absence of hospitality in Peru. This is also an effect of the
revolution; for at the time I alluded to, a stranger in this country
need not expend a maravedi in travelling; but those days, I fear, will
never return."

This conversation occurred in the summer of 1827, and there are a few
readers of the MIRROR who were then in Peru, who will readily recognise
the writer.

VIATOR.

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ON FEAR.

_By Sir Thomas More._


If evils come not, then our fears are vain,
And if they do, fear but augments the pain.

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MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS.

SKIMINGTON RIDING.

_(To the Editor of the Mirror.)_