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 time, as did the good vicar, for the ſhort remainder of his days. His wife, who was really a worthy women, was very tender of him, and worked exceedingly hard to maintain him, and through the charitable aſſiſtance ſhe met with at the '{quire's, ſhe was enabled to ſupport him decently to the laſt, and had great comfort in ſeeing him ſo ſincere a penitent. Many a time did he lament that he had been ſuch a bad huſband and father, and when he found himſelf dying he called his family about him, and entreated them to take warning by his fate, and not cut their days ſhort by drunkenneſs as he had done; he alſo warned them not to go on finning with a deſign of taking up at the latter end of their days; for though he had been ſo happy as to be brought to a ſenſe of his crimes, it might not be the caſe with them; and if it even ſhould, they might believe his words, that the better people had lived the happier they would be at the hour of death, for the greater would be their hopes; he then deſired the vicar might be ſent for immediately, who came, and while he was ſaying the recommendatory prayer Timothy Sparks breathed his laſt.

As foon as Mrs Andrews heard that he was departed ſhe went to ſee his widow, whom ſhe found very decently and properly affected. She lamented that her huſband