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The
History
of a
Foundling.

BOOK I.

Containing the moſt memorable Tranſactions which paſſed in the Family of Mr. Allworthy, from the Time when Tommy Jones arrived at the Age of Fourteen, till he attained the Age of Seventeen[errata 1]. In this Book the Reader may pick up ſome Hints concerning the Education of Children.

CHAP. I.

Containing little or nothing.

The Reader will be pleaſed to remember, that at the Beginning of the Second Book of this Hiſtory, we gave him a Hint of our Intention to paſs over ſeveral large

  1. Correction: Seventeen should be amended to Nineteen: detail