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 ſeeing Thomas Daviſon and his ſon enter her door with tears in their eyes, and begged to know what troubled them?

Ah! my good neighbour, cried Thomas, I am very unhappy; this child, yeſterday, when almoſt famiſhed with hunger, got into your orchard and took ſome apples. My mother found it out; ſhe now lies dying, and begs you will forgive him. It is not in my power at preſent to pay you the worth of the apples, but you may depend on my doing ſo with the firſt money I can earn. Think no more about it, Thomas, replied the good woman, my little friend here, ſaid ſhe, will promiſe, I dare ſay, never more to take any thing that he has not a right to; and I will forgive him with all my heart. Conſider, Robert, what an honeſt family you come of, and do not bring diſgrace upon it. You ſhould reflect what a dreadful crime ſtealing is. If you had told me that you were ſo hungry, I would have gone without a meal myſelf to have fed you, rather than you ſhould have committed a theft; be ſure when you are in the ſame condition again, to make your wants known to me.

Thanks be to God, replied Thomas, I have reaſon to hope Robert will not be driven to ſuch extremities again; I ſhall go into work to-morrow, and expect to have a good job at the 'Squire's. lam heartily glad to here it, anſwered Mrs. Parker, I wiſh you joy!