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Horæ Sarisburienses." May the perusal of our papers induce our friends to think of the 4th of June with additional pleasure: may their commendations not only afford our contributors a gratification equal to their labors, but be such as may encourage them to exert their genius on many a better and nobler occasion. May we, the Editors, rejoice in it, as the day in which our official errors, (of whatever kind they be) obtained the forgiveness of our readers, as well as that our conduct and exertions, under all circumstances, met the approbation of our numerous correspondents. With this hope, again and again we joyfully exclaim, huzza for the 4th of June!

N. IV.

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HORE SARISBURIENSES.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

DEAR EDITORS,

August 9th.

I HAVE just arrived, after a joyful vacation of six or seven weeks, of course very miserable and dreadfully affected with ennui, which I think I cannot better dispel, than by writing you a letter of condolence on our return from "home, sweet home!"-from our parents, and the friends whom we love. But yet you must confess there is some little satisfaction in again meeting with our schoolfellows; in returning to our sports-our cricket club, and last, not least, to our beloved "Horæ." Melancholy reigns almost universally-there is scarcely a joyful countenance to be seen. What a contrast to the last time I beheld these walls! There are, to be sure, some little ones, running here and there, who are, as it were, attempting to drown, with their boisterous shouts, all recollections of home. Some are enjoying the sweets which their good housekeeper has not forgotten to pack in every nook of their school-box; whilst others, again, are counting the cash with which their purses are well supplied. But chiefly have I been amused by the different behaviour of our friends in the committee, on this mournful occasion. As for Kenyon, after our first salutations

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