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( 11 ) become an ueful citizen. Let me know whatever buines your inclination leads you to, and I hall look out immediately for a proper mater: but, before you become apprenticed, it behoves you to be very diligent; you hould read with propriety, write well, and undertand accounts perfectly; pay particular attention to your pelling and arithmetic. I deire an anwer to this by return of pot, without being either previously read or corrected by your mater, that I may hereby judge of the progres you are making. I am your affectionate father,

The Son's anwer.

Dear and Honoured Sir,

obedience to your requets, you may depend upon my diligence and attention, it being the chief of my ambition to be bound as oon as poible, and become a man of buines. I confes myelf partial to the employments of a Bookeller and Stationer: hould my father endeavour to procure uch a mater for me, I would train every nerve to render myelf a worthy apprentice, and as duty demands, a grateful on.

The Father to his Son, when bound. My dear William,

AS I have now atisfied your wih, in procuring you the deired mater, I hope you will be mindful of the advice I gave you the