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 The Letter-Writer. 4 together as pleaſant and eaſy as it is now irkſome land hard. My humble duty to yourſelves: and I beg the fa- vour of you to give my kind love to my brothers and filters, and remember me to all my friends and acquaintance : which is at preſent all from, Your very dutiful and obedient Son, CHARLES GOODENOUGH.

A Letter of Excuſe to Father or Mother. Honoured Sr, or Mother, I AM informed, and it gives me a great concern, that you have heard an ill report of me, which I ſuppoſe, was raiſed by ſome of my ſchool fellows, who either envy my happineſs, or by aggravating my fauits, would be thought to ſeem leſs criminal themſelves; though I muſt have been a little too remiſs in my ſchool buſineſs, and am now ſen- ſible I have loſt, in ſome meaſure, my time and credit thereby; but, by my future diligence, I hope ſoon to recover both: and to convince you that I pay a ſtrict regard to all your commands, which I am bound to, as well in gratitude as duty, and hope I ſhad ever have leave, with great truth, to ſub- ſeribe myſelf,

Your moſt dutiful Son WILLIAM COLLINS. From a young Apprentice to his Father, to let him know how he likes his place, and goes on.

Honoured Sir, I Know it will be a grant ſatisfaction to you and my dear mother, to hear that I go on very hap- pily in my buſineſs, and my master ſeeing 'my dili- gence pas me forward, and encourages me in ſuch a manner that I have great delight in it, and hope I ſhall