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rich nor poor : He had married off his two Daughters, & placed 

 his only Son in Trade ; but I beleive he had little to give wth 

 the Ladies, & his Son is only apprentice & not set up. So the 

 Widow & Lad will be glad of what is left. Nevertheless I do not 

 see why your Brother should abstain from a moderate Demand ; 

 I mean, according to ye Golden Eule of " Doing as He would be 

 done by." 



I hope I shall see your Brother wth You this Winter. As to 

 Meonstoke, I shall be gone before he returns, for I intend to get 

 into Winter Quarters about ye middle of next Month. This 

 however need not prevent our seeing You, if You have an^ 

 Opportunity. I think Myself in a Way to be likely to give You 

 much Trouble, if I shd get to You, so that You will be safer 

 without me, & Home is ye best Place for feeble Folk. Not but 

 that it was a great Pleasure to me Today to think that I could 

 dine wth You wth Ease after travelling a very pleasing Eoad 'till 

 Newton Lane End. I enquired after You of Master Ogbourne, 

 but he has not seen you lately, He told me he had seen your 

 Neighbour Yalden. 



Congratulate Harry from me,* and present Mine and Mrs M's 

 Services to all your good Neighbours. 



I am ever, Dear Gil, Your's affetely, 



J. Mulso. 



Inn Pens & Ink & great Difficulty to write wth a Scewer. 



Letter 148. 

 The Eeverend Mr White Winton. 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. Jan. 10, 1773. 



Dear Gil : 



I am obliged to You for your kind Letter, & am joined by 

 all of this House in returning You the Wishes of the Season. 

 May our Friendship continue to a good old Age, (let it be cruda 

 viridisque,) & give us as much Satisfaction in it's latter Part as it 

 has done 'till ye Year 1773. 



I suppose your Brother John & his Lady are put up in 

 Cotton with some of the Andalusian Earities, for how they can 

 stand agst this severe Weather after their broiling on the Eock 

 so long, I cannot imagine.! I very much long to see them: 

 should You stare very much if You saw me come tottering down 

 the Hill supported by my Man ? And would You allow me, as 

 a Witney Man, an additional Blanket ? and, as an old Soaker, a 

 double Portion of your Spirits ? For I fancy the North Side of 



* This perhaps refers to an exchange of livings, but I am unable to 

 trace it. 



t John White had arrived in England from Gibraltar in July, 1772, and 

 with his wife was spending the winter at his brother's house at Selborne. 



