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memoir, the reader will not be difpleafed 

 to turn from it's principal perfonage, dif- 

 tinguifhed rather by wonderful endowment 

 than by uncommon occurrences, while the 

 picture of his friend's more eventful ftory 

 pafles before their eyes. 



Mr. Day's father died during his infancy, 

 and left him an eftate of twelve hundred 

 pounds per annum. Soon after his mother 

 married a gentleman of the name of Phi- 

 lips. The author of this narrative has 

 often heard Mr. Day defer ibe him as one 

 of thofe common characters, w r ho feek to 

 fupply their inherent want of confequence, 

 by a bufy teizing interference in circum- 

 ftances, with which they have .no real 

 concern. 



Mrs. Philips, jointured with three hun- 

 dred pounds a year out of her fon's eftate, 

 was left his fole guardian, or united with 

 another perfon in the trust, whom ilie in- 

 fluenced. Herfelf, influenced by fuch a 



hufband, 



