"the master. It will not at all interfere "with your weekly calling, and it is the

only lawful way in which you could turn "the fabbath into a day of fome little profit "to your family, by doing, as I hope, a

great deal of good to the fouls of others. "The rest of the week you will work as "ufual. The difference of rent between "this house and the clerk's I fhall pay my"self, for to put you into a better house at

your own expence would be no great act "of kindness.-As for honeft Mary, who "is not fit for hard labour, or any out-of"door work, I propofe to endow a small

weekly school, of which she shall be the

"mistress, and employ her notable turn to

other

good account, by teaching ten or a dozen girls to knit, few, fpin, card, or any "ufeful way of getting their bread; for all "this I fhall only pay her the ufual price, "for I am not going to make you rich but "ufetul."

"Not rich, fir?" cried the Shepherd; "How can I ever be thankful enough for "fuch

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"fuch bleflings? And will my poor Mary "have a dry thatch over her head? and " fhall I be able to fend for the doctor when

I am like to lofe her? Indeed my cup "runs over with bleffings, I hope God will

give me humility."-Here he and Mary looked at each other and burft into tears. The gentlemen faw their diftrefs, and kindly walked out upon the little green before the door, that thefe honeft people might give vent to their feelings. As foon as they were alone they crept into one corner of the room, where they thought they could not be feen, and fell on their knees, devoutly bleffing and praifing God for his mercies. Never were more hearty prayers presented, than this grateful couple offered up for their benefactors. The warmth of their gratitude could only be equalled by the earnestness with which they befought the bleffing of God on the work in which they were going to engage.

The two gentlemen now left this happy family, and walked to the parfonage, where

the

the evening was spent in a manner very edifying to Mr. Johnson, who the next day took all proper measures for putting the Shepherd in immediate poffeffion of his now comfortable habitation. Mr. Jenkins's father-in-law, the worthy gentleman who gave the Shepherd's wife the blankets, in the first part of this hiftory, arrived at the parfonage before Mr. Johnson left it, and affifted in fitting up the clerk's cottage.

Mr. Johnson took his leave, promifing to call on the worthy Minister and his new clerk once a year, in his fummer's journey over the plain, as long as it fhould please God to fpare his life. He had every reafon to be fatisfied with the objects of his bounty. The Shepherd's zeal and piety made him a bleffing to the rifing generation. The old reforted to his school for the benefit of hearing the young inftructed; and the clergyman had the pleasure of feeing that he was rewarded for the protection he gave the school, by the great increase in his congregation. The Shepherd not only exhorted

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horted both parents and children to the indifpenfible duty of a regular attendance at church, but by his pious counsels he drew them thither, and by his plain and prudent inftructions enabled them to understand, and of course to delight in the public worship of God.

THE

TWO SHOEMAKERS.

JACK BROWN and JAMES STOCK, were

two lads apprenticed at nearly the fame time, to Mr. Williams, a fhoemaker, in a fmall town in Oxfordfhire: they were pretty near the fame age, but of very different characters and difpofitions.

Brown was eldeft fon to a farmer in good circumstances, who gave the usual apprentice fee with him. Being a wild giddy boy, whom his father could not well manage or instruct in farming, he thought it better to fend him out to learn a trade at a distance, than to let him idle about at home; for Jack always preferred bird'snesting and marbles to any other employment; he would trifle away half the day, when

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