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M,DCC,LXXXIII.

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WAKEFIELD.

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The hiftory of a philofophick vagabond, pursuing novelty, but lofing content..

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FTER we had fupped, Mrs. Arnold politely offered to fend a cuple of her footmen for my fon's baggage, which he at first seemed to decline; but, upon her preffing the request, he was obliged to inform her that a ftick and a wallet were all the moveable things upon this earth that he could boast of. "Why, "ay, my fon," cried I," you left me but poor, I find you are come back; and yet I

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" and poor "make no doubt have feen you "world." "Yes, Sir," replied my fon; "but "travelling after Fortune is not the way to secure "her; and, indeed, of late, I have defifted from "the pursuit." "I fancy, Sir," cried Mrs. Arnold, "that the account of your adventures would "be amufing: the first part of them I have often.

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"heard from my niece; but, could the company "prevail for the reft, it would be an additional obligation." "Madam," replied my fon, "I promise you, the pleasure you have in hear"ing, will not be half fo great as my vanity in "reciting them; and yet, in the whole narrative, "I can scarce promise you one adventure, as my * account is rather of what I saw, than what I "did. The first misfortune of my life, which "you all know, was great; but, though it dif "treffed, it could not fink me. No perfon ever "had a better knack at hoping than I. The less "kind I found Fortune at one time, the more. I *expected from her at another; and, being now "at the bottom of her wheel, every new revolu"tion might lift, but could not depress me. I

proceeded, therefore, towards London, in a fine "morning, no way uneafy about to-morrow, but "cheerful as the birds that carrol'd by the road, "and comforted myself with reflecting, that "London was the true mart, where abilities of 66 every kind were fure of meeting diftinction and "reward.

"Upon my arrival in town, Sir, my first care "was, to deliver your letter of recommendation "to our coufin, who was himself in little better "circumftances than I. My firft fcheme, you "know, Sir, was to be ufher at an academy, and "I asked his advice in the affair. Our coufin "received the propofal with a true Sardonic "grin. Ay, cried he, this is, indeed, a very "pretty career that has been chalked out for you.

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