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53 INSTANCES 0F ATTACHMENT—FECUNDITY.
size and maturity; one of the couple was as large aS
lambs usually are at the time of yeaning, and covered
with wool; the second couple smaller, and were without
wool; and the third appeared about half-grown ; from
whence it is probable, they were the effect of three sepa-
rate and distinct conceptions.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF UNWEARIED ATTACHMENT.
In the beginning of the month of November 1803, was
married, Mr. Thomas Dufty, a respectable farmer ofEp-
perstone, near Mansfield, in the county of Nottingham, to
Miss Grame, a lady of fortune, in the county of Westmore-
land. The annals of matrimony scarce afford a more sin-
gular instance of unwearied attachment than the following :
The parties were known to each other in their youth, and
became mutually enamoured ; but the unrelenting oppo-
sition of parents broke off the match. Mr. D. found ano-
ther connection, he married and was the father of several
children, and became a widower. His first love was again
by correspondence renewed, again frustrated. By the
same means he sought consolation in the arms of a second
wife, his family again increased, and he a second time be-
came a widower. His first flame still unextinguished,
once more renewed, and former obstacles being extinct,
after a lapse of 25 years, without ever seeing each other
in the interval, this couple have at length united.
TWO REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF FECUNDITY.
On the 31st of August 1803, Mary, the wife of Thomas
Cooke, an industrious cottager, of Haggon-field, near
Worksop, ffas safely delivered of one boy and two girls,
all fine children. The parents are each in their 46th year,
have had ten children prior to this treble birth, at one time
twins. Their eldest daughter is married, and has had three
' - - children;
size and maturity; one of the couple was as large aS
lambs usually are at the time of yeaning, and covered
with wool; the second couple smaller, and were without
wool; and the third appeared about half-grown ; from
whence it is probable, they were the effect of three sepa-
rate and distinct conceptions.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF UNWEARIED ATTACHMENT.
In the beginning of the month of November 1803, was
married, Mr. Thomas Dufty, a respectable farmer ofEp-
perstone, near Mansfield, in the county of Nottingham, to
Miss Grame, a lady of fortune, in the county of Westmore-
land. The annals of matrimony scarce afford a more sin-
gular instance of unwearied attachment than the following :
The parties were known to each other in their youth, and
became mutually enamoured ; but the unrelenting oppo-
sition of parents broke off the match. Mr. D. found ano-
ther connection, he married and was the father of several
children, and became a widower. His first love was again
by correspondence renewed, again frustrated. By the
same means he sought consolation in the arms of a second
wife, his family again increased, and he a second time be-
came a widower. His first flame still unextinguished,
once more renewed, and former obstacles being extinct,
after a lapse of 25 years, without ever seeing each other
in the interval, this couple have at length united.
TWO REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF FECUNDITY.
On the 31st of August 1803, Mary, the wife of Thomas
Cooke, an industrious cottager, of Haggon-field, near
Worksop, ffas safely delivered of one boy and two girls,
all fine children. The parents are each in their 46th year,
have had ten children prior to this treble birth, at one time
twins. Their eldest daughter is married, and has had three
' - - children;