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( 9 ) Child, went to the young lady's father, and told him with a ſigh, "That he was ſorry to be the meſſenger of ill news;" but, ſaid he, "with grief I expreſs it, your daughter is with child. "What I ſay is not merely conjecture, but abſolute fact, and I am ready to take my oath that your daughter is with child The old gentleman was extremely ſhocked to hear of ſuch a charge againſt his only daughter, whom he tenderly loved, and of whoſe chaſtity he had always entertained the higheſt opinion. In ſhort, the old gentleman was almoſt crazy, and Frank had too much humanity to let him remain any longer in that ſituation, but baniſhed all his ſorrows in the following words: "I ſaw your daughter this morning, ſhe was with child, and by me.—That is, the was with Mr Child, the Attorney, and by me, becauſe I was near her."

An Iriſh gentleman, in company with ſome friends at a tavern, hearing ſome perſons walking up ſtairs, offered to lay a wager, that he knew who was