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10 had no anſwer, and am not conſcious of having any way diſobliged you If I have, I will moſt willingly aſk your pardon, for nobody can be more than I am,

Your affectionate and faithful friend and ſervant.

In Anſwer to the preceding.

Dear Sir.

YOU have not, cannot diſoblige me but I have greatly diſobliged myſelf in my own faultry remiſlneſs; I cannot account for it as I ought Tо ſay I had buſineſs one time, company another, was diſtant from home a third, will be but poor excuſes, for not anſwering one of your kind letters in four long months I therefore ingenuouſly take ſhame to myſelf, and promiſe future anendment, and that nothing ſhaltever while I am able to hold a pen wake me guilty of the like neglect to a friend I love Forgive me then my good, my kind, my generous friend; and believe me ever,

Yours, &c.

PART II.

ON LOVE, COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE.

From a young Man juſt out of his Apprenticeſhip to his Sweetheart, a Servant in the Neighbourhood,

Dear Sally,

I have been long in love with you, but was afraid to tell you When I go with you to agmgge, or Sa ers Wills, I am almost like a fool, and altogether unfit for company think of you all day, and at night & dream of my dear Sally I am well leveled in work, and my wages are eighteen ſhillings