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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt:...a message to Mr Clifibrd. Crqfi. Clifibrd! why, what has your master to do with Clifford? Jon. Why, sir, his father, who resides in Jamaica, has appointed Mr Primitive his guardian--the young gentleman is already apprized of the circumstance by letter, and I'm now going to request an interview_but see--there is my master, after an absence of thirty years! you behold him come home to share his fortune with the young couple. C1-qft. So I do. (Exit JoXAT-HAN.) And asl mean to touch a third of hisfortune, I must keep him in the dark about the young couple--yes; much as I detest, I must not expose them--for, as the joke goes, if we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang ' separately. Enter PRIMITIvE_from the Hotel. Welco1ne, my dear cousin--once more welcome to 1 your native towni Why, you made haste to get here. You did not stay long in London. Prim. London! plague on the place, it's worse than ever.--In point of heat, Jamaica's cool to it--in point of noise, a hurricane is silence to it--and for company and conversation, certainly the crew of the ship I came in runs it very hard indeed, cousin. Crqft. Ha! ha! ha! still devoted to a country life, I see. _ Prim. Oh, yes--I think of nothing else-_--for there's the seat of purity and peace; and now for it, coznow for the darling theme--Gabriel's married, I find. l Crqft. Yes, he's married. (Sigks aside.) Prim. And to a woman of your chusing--to a sweet innocent soul, that's as much attached to rural life as her husband is. Craft. Yes, as much as he is. Prim. And they're now at the cottage--and I am come in time for the honey-moon.--Oh, my dear cousin, this is all your doing!--you gave him a country education--you taught him to...