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 then recommended him to be under gardener to the 'ſquire, and in time he was head gardener, and greatly liked, but he often ſaid he ſhould never forget the pain which one diſhoneſt action had coſt him, and that he would not commit another theſe for the world. His brother Jacob, when he grew up, followed his father's buſineſs, and his two ſiſter's having read their grandmother's certificate, and heard her dying injunction, determined to ſtrive to gain as good a character for themſelves; and though they had difficult tempers to deal with, they kept their places, and were, after a time, both married to induſtrious honeſt men, and ſettled near their father, ſo that they were at hand to aſſiſt him when he grew old and infirm. Thomas lived to a good age, and his death was ſtill happier than his mother's, for he had no care for thoſe he left behind, and could employ his whole thoughts on a happy eternity.