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give them additional force, your petitioners humbly apprehend your Honour is fubject to fits that may hurry you into fchemes of which you may repent while they are carrying into execution. Your peti

tioners pray to know whether this is the cafe in regard to ShenstoneGreen, because, if it were, they jointly agree to give up their jobb, and compromise for the coft of labour they have been already at.

THAT, if it is thus, your Honour had better stop in time; for, to confefs the truth, we look on your Honour's taking off your bat as much as to fay-" Pretty gentlemen, you are picking my pocket here "finely." Your erecting a town,

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to make a prefent of, we humbly conceive to be out of the question; being an affair that will not hold water. Your rewarding the boy for destroying the hundred of bricks, we imagine was ironically given, and by way of fneer, as much as to fay"The fooner, my lad, you do my

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bufinefs, by completing my ruin, "the better." Your getting into nooks and corners, talking to yourfelf, &c. we apprehend to be on account of your Honour's unwillingness to fend us off the premifes; your laughing and crying in the fame breath frightens us almoft out of our wits; and your Honour's pleafing to make one of us drunk, we confider in no other way than that you wished him to fend the fledge of marble

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after the barrow of bricks.—We, your petitioners, therefore, alarmed by these desperate fymptoms, do most humbly befeech, and intreat, that your Honour will explain yourfelf to us, and tell us what is to be done. Do this, and your petitioners fhall for ever pray, &c. &c.

My hand trembled all the time I read this petition, but refolved to treat it as a jeft, at leaft in the prefence of Samuel, Laffected to fmile, and demanded who might be the penman of this pleasant thing. Little Phil. Flourish the carver, fir, faid Samuel. He is a wit you know..

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That being the cafe, Samuel, faid I, pray take this half guinea to the wit, and tell him, from me, to put the petition into as handfome a frame as poffible, and, do you hear, let . the glazier give it the additional decoration of a glass.

Samuel took the paper and the half guinea, and walked off in fuch a manner as convinced me he was both chagrined and disappointed.

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N about two hours after, an odd figure of a man, with a rusty wig, and full-trimmed clothes, about three parts worn, and one part torn, came scraping his foot, and bending his body into my apartment, and faid he had the honour to be admitted into the best families in Wales.

And will you favour me with your wrift, good fir, faid he?

Willingly-faid I.

Ti-i-i-hi-we are all in a hurry-hard at work, hard at work,

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