THE HALL
_ The ancientest house, and the best for housekeeping
in this county or the next, and though the master of
it write but squire, I know no lord like him.
MERRY BEGGARS.
The reader, if he has perused the volumes of the Sketch Book, will probably recollect something of the Bracebridge family, with which I once passed a Christmas. I am now on another visit at the Hall, having been invited to a wedding which is shortly to take place. The squire‘s second son, Guy, a fine, spirited young captain in the army, is about to be married to his father‘s ward, the fair Julia Templeton. A gathering of relations and friends has already commenced, to celebrate the joyful occasion； for the old gentleman is an enemy to quiet, private weddings. "There is nothing," he says, "like launching a young couple gaily, and cheering them from the shore； a good outset is half the voyage."
Before proceeding any farther, I would beg that the squire might not be confounded with that class of ha

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