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 have the bet Luck. Her Father was a Married Man, and his Wife having been brought to Bed, contracted an Illnes in her lying in, and in order to recover her Health, he was advied to remove for Change of Air; the Place he choe, was a few Miles ditance from her Dwelling, where her Husband’s Mother liv’d. Here he ojourn’d ome Time, her Husband taying at Home, to follow his Affairs. The Servant-Maid, whom he left to look after the Houe, and attend the Family, being a handome young Woman, was courted by a young Man of the ame Town, who was a Tanner; this Tanner ued to take his Opportunities, when the Family was out of the Way, of coming to purue his Courthip; and being with the Maid one Day as he was employ’d in the Houhold Buines, not having the Fear of God before his Eyes, he takes his Opportunity, when her Back was turned, of whipping three Silver Spoons into his Pocket. The Maid oon mis’d the Spoons, and knowing that no Body had been in the Room, but herelf and the young Man, ince he aw them lat, he charged him with taking them; he very tifly denied it, upon which he grew outragious, and threatned to go to a Contable, in order to carry him before a Jutice of Peace: Thee Menaces frighten’d him out of his Wits, well knowing he could not tand Search; wherefore he endeavoured to pacify her, by deiring her to examine the Drawers and other Places, and perhaps he might find them; in this Time he lips into another Room, where the Maid uually lay, and puts the Spoons betwixt the Sheets, and then makes his Ecape by a back Door, concluding he mut find them, when he went to Bed, and o next Day he might pretend he did it only to frighten her, and the Thing might be laugh’d off for a Jet. As