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 Tommy, in vain, endeavoured to pacify and reſtrain his ſteed. Cæſar, without paying any regard to his driver, precipitately ruſhed into the pond, and carried both carriage and driver into the middle of it. The boys who were ſpectators, now received freſh matter of diverſion, and, notwithſtanding their reſpect for Tommy, they could not help ſputtering loud ſhouts of deriſion.

O day, a bull was to be baited in the neighbourhood of Mr. Merton's, where Tommy had gone on a viſit to his father, when he and all his gay and flighty companions ſtole away to ſee it, and Harry reluctantly followed them at a diſtance.

W this inhuman ſpectacle was going forward, a poor half-naked black came to them, and humbly implored their charity. Finding he could get nothing from them, he approached the place where Harry ſtood, holding out the remains of his tattered hat. Harry put his hand in his pocket, and gave him the only ſixpence he had.

T dogs now attacked the bull with ſuch fury, that the animal became mad and outrageous. The furious animal ran