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6 The Father's Answer.

My Dear Son.-The reason for not sending an answer to you sooner was that I had been on a journey to Birmingham, and did not me your letter till last night. I have considered your request, and has found it reasonable. You are mistaken if you think that I wanted to confine you to the small matter paid by Mr. Willis, or to one particular sum. You are now arrived at an age when it becomes incumbent on you to be well acquainted with the value and use of money. Your profession also likewise requires it both prudence and steadiness in youth, naturally leads to the regularity of conduct in more advanced years. Virtue ensures respect, and well do I know that all manner of precepts are quite useless where the inclinations are vicious. I have left the affair mentioned in your letter, entirely to your own discretion; and have sent the inclosed unlimited order. I have no donbt but prudence will direct you how to proceed-I am, dear child, your affectionate and loving father.

From a young Gentleman at a School in the country to his Brother, an Apprentice in London.

Dear Jackey,-Little master William Thomson is going to London to-morrow morning in the stage and I have sent this with him to you. We are all well at school, and I have got as far as Ovid; I have likewise got through the rules of practice, of which I shall give you a better account when I come to town at the holidays. Dear brother, give my respects to my father and mother, and tell them I long to see them; I pray for them and you every night. I spend about an hour every day in reading Dr. Goldsmith's Roman History. Pray Jackey, send me some books for I am fond of reading them, and a