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 ‘Why, he told you that Nobody was with him a hooting when he killed the Partridge; but he knows, (here he burt into a Flood of Tears) yes, he knows; for he confeed it to me, that Black Jack the Game-keeper was there. Nay, he aid,—Yes you did,―deny it if you can, That you would not have confet the Truth, thought Mater had cut you to Pieces.’

At this the Fire flahed from Thwackum’s Eyes; and he cried out in Triumph: ‘Oh ho! This is your mitaken Notion of Honour! This is the Boy who was not to be whipped again!’ But Mr. Allworthy, with a more gentle Apect, turned towards the Lad, and aid, ‘Is this true, Child? How came you to perit o obtinately in a Falhood?’

Tom aid, ‘He corned a Lie as much as any one; but he thought his Honour engaged him to act as he did; for he had promied the poor Fellow to conceal him; which,’ he said, ‘he thought himelf farther obliged to, as the Game-keeper had begged him not to go into the Gentleman’s Manor, and had at lat gone himelf in