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 Terre-Filiuy. the MZGISTP. ATES and Ssszous of your own col. leges. There is no �ociety in the world withoutjdal- mosgers and tale. bearerf, who make it their chief bufmefs to fetch and carry idle tlories of their bet. ters; a vice too confpicuous at oxjrdt which abounds with this fort of men, who run poking into every corner of the town to pick up little cainre- hies a ainf their tutors and governors, and make g. them their evening entertainment over a tankard of ' COL/, and a pipe of tobacco. Whenever you hear any thing of this nature, let it go !n at one ear, and out at the other never re- port It again, nor make any enquiries into the truth of it, but implicitly believe it to be a/ye, and fwear roundly that you know it to be �o. I have often keen this method ?ra&is'd with great fuccef 5 for it im- mediately circulates amongf the grave o6 that ruth a door was the fubje& of di�court in h om?any upon fuch a night, and that fucb  one de- nded'his chura&er again all the re? of the pany.---Wheres, if you liRcn to any of theti re.. ports, and run goffiping ,about with. them from one to another, with hat dye think, Jack, I heard la.l night of door fich a one ? Or, I'//tellyou hat, Tom, but e fire ot to tell any boly agaiu, &c. I fly, if you do thus, you my depend upon it tha: it will inhllibly come to the do8or's ears 5 that will be looked upon as the original authors, not the reporters only, and will unwarily treafure up to your �dves vengeance againf the day of vengeance. Leave no tto mtutucd to infinuate your fclve into the fayour of the H.,u, and pnior-fellows of oour refpecqive colleges 3 what I have fid, in the tegoiug paragraph, if duly obferved, will mightily conduce College

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