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person who gives them bread for life. If then, I say, such a one should be found betraying his master's trust, and yielding up any right of his, for a sordid and paltry bribe: if the person who had seduced him, should then fight him with his own weapons, and trick him of his covenanted reward and unjust hire, as my reader will find was the case in the following story:

Such a person, I say, if he should break articles with him, and bilk him of his unjust and criminal expectations, is rather to be commended than the other pitied. There is no creature upon the face of the carth so guilty of this crime, ingratitude, as mankind-even the most furious of wild beasts, are civilized by gratitude, and will not hurt their benefactors and providers. But man is daily giving up his father, mother, wiſe, children, friend, and his whole country, for a mere triffle.

Let every man, thus guilty, pat the question to himſelf, and then consider it