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 It may be imagined, that a Gentleman o qualified, and o dipoed, was in no danger of becoming formidable to the learned Seminaries of Eton or Wetminfter. To peak plainly, his Scholars were divided into two Claes. In the upper of which was a young Gentleman, the Son of a neighbouring ’Squire, who at the Age of Seventeen was jut entered into his Syntaxis; and in the lower was a econd Son of the ame Gentleman, who, together with even Parih-boys, was learning to read and write.

The Stipend ariing hence would hardly have indulged the Schoolmater in the Luxuries of Life, had he not added to this Office thoe of Clerk and Barber, and had not Mr. Allworthy added to the whole an Annuity of Ten Pound, which the poor Man received every Chritmas, and with which he was enabled to chear his Heart during that acred Fetival.

Among his other Treaures, the Pedagogue had a Wife whom he had married out of Mr. Allworthy’s Kitchen, for her Fortune, viz. Twenty Pound, which he had there amaed.