Terre-Filiuy. the MZGISTP. ATES and Ssszous of your own col. leges. There is no �ociety in the world withoutj?dal- mosgers and tale. bearerf, who make it their chief bufmefs to fetch and carry idle tlories of their bet. ters; a vice too confpicuous at oxj?rdt which abounds with this fort of men, who run poking into every corner of the town to pick up little cainre- hies a ainf? their tutors and governors, and make g. them their evening entertainment over a tankard of ' COL/?, and a pipe of tobacco. Whenever you hear any thing of this nature, let it go !n at one ear, and out at the other? never re- port It again, nor make any enquiries into the truth of it, but implicitly believe it to be a/ye, and fwear roundly that you know it to be �o. I have often keen this method ?ra&is'd with great fuccef? 5 for it im- mediately circulates amongf? the grave o?6 that ruth a do?or was the fubje& of di�court? in ?h ?om?any upon fuch a night, and that fucb ? one de- ?nded'his chura&er again? all the re?? of the pany.---Where?s, if you liRcn to any of theti? re.. ports, and run goffiping ,about with. them from one to another, with ?hat dye think, Jack, I heard la.l? night of do?or fi?ch a one ? Or, I'//tellyou ?hat, Tom, but ?e fi?re ?ot to tell any bo?ly agaiu, &c. I fly, if you do thus, you m?y depend upon it tha?: it will in?hllibly come to the do8or's ears 5 that will be looked upon as the original authors, not the reporters only, and will unwarily treafure up to your �dves vengeance againf? the day of vengeance. Leave no tto? ?mtutucd to infinuate your fclve? into the fayour of the H?.,?u, and pnior-fellows of ?oour refpecqive colleges 3 what I have fi?d, in the tegoiug paragraph, if duly obferved, will mightily conduce College
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