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Title: The works of Henry Fielding
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 Maynadier, G. H. (Gustavus Howard), 1866-
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Publisher: New York, G.D. Sproul
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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COPYHIbiri. l«*Oi. »Y MIK. UNIVKK.ilTY M THE HOSTS STORY tell you another true story of him. There was aneighbour of mine, a farmer, who had two sons whomhe bred up to the business. Pretty lads they were.Nothing would serve the squire but that the youngestmust be made a parson. Upon which he persuadedthe father to send him to school, promising that hewould afterwards maintain him at the university, and,when he was of a proper age, give him a living. Butafter the lad had been seven years at school, and hisfather brought him to the squire, with a letter fromhis master that he was fit for the university, thesquire, instead of minding his promise, or sendinghim thither at his expense, only told his father thatthe young man was a fine scholar, and it was pity hecould not afford to keep him at Oxford for four orfive years more, by which time, if he could get hima curacy, he might have him ordained. The farmersaid, He was not a man sufficient to do any suchthing. — Why, then,1 answered t

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