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 Perons who live two or three Miles Ditance in the Country are conidered as next Door Neighbours, and Tranactions at the one Houe fly with incredible Celerity to the other. Mrs. Honour, therefore, had heard the whole Story of Molly’s Shame, which he, being of a very communicative Temper, had no ooner entered the Apartment of her Mitres, than he began to relate in the following Manner:

‘La Ma’am, what doth your La’hip think? the Girl that your La’hip aw at Church on Sunday, whom you thought o handome; though you would not have thought her o handome neigher, if you had een her nearer; but to be ure he hath been carried before the Jutice for being big with Child. She eemed to me to look like a confident Slut; and to be ure he hath laid the Child to young Mr. Jones. And all the Parih ays Mr. Allworthy is o angry with young Mr. Jones, that he won’t ee him. To be ure, one can’t help pitying the poor young Man, and yet he doth not deerve much Pity neither, for demeaning himelf with uch Kind of Trumpery. Yet he is o pretty a Gentleman, I hould be