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 Jones, as if they had been his own. He reolved therefore to make ue of this Favour on Behalf of his Friend Black George, whom he hoped to introduce into Mr. Wetern’s Family in the ame Capacity in which he had before erved Mr. Allworthy.

The Reader, if he coniders that this Fellow was already obnoxious to Mr. Wetern, and if he coniders farther the weighty Buines by which that Gentleman’s Dipleaure had been incurred, will perhaps condemn this as a foolih and deperate Undertaking; but if he hould not totally condemn young Jones on that Account, he will greatly applaud him for trengthening himelf with all imaginable Interet on o arduous an Occaion.

For this Purpoe then Tom applied to Mr. Wetern’s Daughter, a young Lady of about eventeen Years of Age, whom her Father, next after thoe neceary Implements of Sport jut before-mentioned, loved and eteemed above all the World. Now as he had ome Influence on the Squire, o Tom had ome little Influence on her. But this being the intended Heroine of this