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DEAR SUSAN,

HOWEVER fond of novels and romances you may be, the unfortunate adventures of one of my neighbours, who died yeflerday, will make you defpife that fi6Hon, in which, know ing the fubjecT: to be fabulous, we can never be fo truly interefted. While this lady was ex piring, Mrs. C— V—, her near kinf- woman, related to me her unhappy hiftory, in which I fhall now take the liberty of interefl- ing your benevolent and feeling heart.

MARIA KITTLE was the only iffue of her parents, who cultivated a large farm on the banks