" It is a rule when any Eervnnt who has lived seven years
at the Grove, marries, provided they have conducted tiiem-
selves well, and make a prudent choice, for Mr. Stanley to
give them a piece of ground on the waste, to build a cot-
tage ; he also allows them to take stones &om his quarry,
and lime trom his kiln ; to tliis he adds a bit of ground for
a garden. Mrs. Stanley presents some kitchen furniture,
and gives a wedding dinner; and the rector refuses his fee
for performing the ceremony." " Caroline," said Sir John,
"this is not the first time since we have been at the Qrove
that I have been struck with observing how many benefits
naturally result to the poor, &om the rich living on th«r




own «atatM. Their dependante have a thousand petty local
aiirikiitHge!!, which cost altno«t nothing to the giver, nhich
are yet viiluable to the receiver, and of which the absent
never think."

" You have heard," aaid Dr. Barlow, " that Miae Stanley,
from hi-r childhood, has been pasuonately fond of cultiva^
ing a gnrden. When she was hardly fourteen, she began
to reflect that the delight she took in thin employment waa
attended ncitlit-r with pleasure nor profit to any one bat
henielt", and she became jealous of a gratification which waa
■o eiitin-Ij selfish. She begged this piece of waste ground
of her father, and stocked it with a number of fine young
fruit-trees of the common sort, apples, peara, plums, and
the smaller finits. When there is a wedding among the
older servants, or when any good girl out of her school
marries she presents their little empty garden with a dozen
young apple-trees, and a few trees of the other sorts, never
fonretliug to em hellish their little court with rosea and honey-
suekti-s. These hist she transplanta from the shrubbeiy,
nut to fill up the village garden, as it is called, with any
thing that is of no positive use. She employs a poor lame
man in the village a day in a week to look after this nursery,
and by culling and graAs a good stock is raised on a small
^>ace. It is done at her own eipense, Mr. 