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Obadiah Mouſetrap. 19 Notice of. Ingratitude is certainly one of the worſt ſins that a man can be guilty of, and in a very ſpecial manner, when it is committed in a breach of truſt, under the perſon who gives them bread for life. If then, I ſay, such an one ſhould be found betraying his maſter's truſt, and yielding up any right of his, for a fordid and paultry bribe; if the perſon who had reduced him, ſhould then fight him with his own weapons, and trick him of his covenanted reward and unjuſt aire, 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 he face of the earth 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, wife, children, friend, nay, and his whole country, for a mere trifle. Let every man, thus