prudent Life? They never build over Cottages or Farm-houses, because
they see, that these People know how to live without their Admonition.

_Thus Health and Wit you may improve,
Taught by the Tenants of the Grove._

The Gentleman laughing gave _Margery_ Sixpence; and told her she
was a sensible Hussey.




CHAP. VI.

_How the whole Parish was frighted._


Who does not know Lady _Ducklington_, or who does not know that
she was buried at this Parish Church?

[Illustration]

Well, I never saw so grand a Funeral in all my Life; but the Money
they squandered away, would have been better laid out in little Books
for Children, or in Meat, Drink, and Cloaths for the Poor.

This if a fine Hearse indeed, and the nodding Plumes on the Horses
look very grand; but what End does that answer, otherwise than to
display the Pride of the Living, or the Vanity of the Dead. Fie upon
such Folly, say I, and Heaven grant that those who want more Sense may