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 Molly, beide her preent unhappy Condition, was differently formed in thoe Parts, and might, perhaps, have tempted the Envy of Brown to give her a fatal Blow, had not the lucky Arrival of Tom Jones at this Intant put an immediate End to the bloody Scene.

This Accident was luckily owing to Mr. Square; for he, Mater Blifil, and Jones, had mounted their Hores, after Church, to take the Air, and had ridden about a Quarter of a Mile, when Square, changing his Mind, (not idly, but for a Reaon which we hall unfold as oon as we have Leiure) deired the young Gentlemen to ride with him another Way than they had at firt purpoed. This Motion being complied with, brought them of Neceity back again to the Church-yard.

Mater Blifil, who rode firt, eeing uch a Mob aembled, and two Women in the Poture in which we left the Combatants, topt his Hore to enquire what was the Matter. A Country Fellow, cratching his Head, anwered him; ‘I don’t know Meater un’t I; an’t pleae your Honour, here hath been a Vight, I think, between