Summer’s Evening’s Amusement The Arrival of a Family of Haymakers Ridicule of personal Defects censured A Storm The Fear of Death The Cottage of honest Jack, the shipwrecked Sailor The History of Jack, and his faithful Dog Pompey

The evening was pleasant; Mrs Mason and the children walked out; and many rustic noises struck their ears. Some bells in a neighbouring village, softened by the distance, sounded pleasingly; the beetles hummed, and the children pursued them, not to destroy them, but to observe their form, and ask questions concerning their mode of living. Sheep were bleating and cattle lowing, the rivulet near them babbled along, while the sound of the distant ocean died away on the ear - or they forgot it, listening to the whistling of the hay-makers, who were returning from the field. They met a whole family, who came / every year from another county where they could not find constant employment, and Mrs Mason allowed them to sleep in her barn. The little ones knew their benefactress, and tried to catch a smile; and she was ever ready to smile on those whom she obliged; for¹[she loved all her fellow-creatures, and love lightens obligations]. ²[Besides, she thought that the poor who are willing to work, had a right to the comforts of life.]