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8 Oh, no, mother—I have leave of abence only for two months; and that for a particular reaon. But I will not quit you o oon, now I find you are in want of my aitance.

No, no, Frederick; your viit will make me o well, that I hall in a very hort time recover trength to work again; and you mut return to your regiment when your furlough is expired. But you told me leave of abence was granted you for a particular reaon.—What reaon ?

When I left you five years ago, you gave me every thing you could afford, and all you thought would be neceary for me. But one trifle you forgot, which was, the certificate of my birth from the church-book.—You know in this country there is nothing to be done without it. At the time of parting from you, I little thought it could be of that conequence to me which I have ince found it would have been. Once I became tired of a oldier’s life, and in the hope I hould obtain my dicharge, offered myelf to a mater to learn a profeion; but his quetion was, “Where is your certificate from the church-book of the parih in which you were born?” It vexed me that I had not it to produce, for my comrades laughed at my diappointment. My captain behaved kinder, for he gave me leave to come home to fetch it—and you ee, mother, here I am.

So you are come for the purpoe of fetching your certificate from the church-book.