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— you will find it at full length Sir" – offering him the two little oblongextracts. — "Sir – said Mr . Heywoodwith a good humoured smile – ifyou were to shew me all the Newspaperstharet1 are printed in one week throughoutthe Kingdom, you yowd .would not persuademe of there being a Surgeon in thisParish Willingden, – for haviInghave2having lived hereSirever since I was born, Man & BoySir57 years, and never heard before I thinkwithout ever hearing of theI must have knownexistence of such a person,at leastbefore. — Ithink I may venture thereforeat least to sayat leastthat he has not much Busineſs.; –3ThoughToto be sure, if Gentlemen were to beoften attempting this Lane in Post--chaises, it might not be a bad Spe::culation for a Surgeon to get a Houseat the top of the Hill. – But as tothat Cottage, I can aſsure youSir thatit is in fact – (inspite of its spruce airat this andistance4 –) as indifferent adouble Tenement as any in the Parish.,5and thatMy6Shepherd lives at one end, & threeold women at the other." He tookthe peicesbits of paper as he spoke – & having

Footnotes

1.
JA wrote 'thare' which she altered to 'that' by overwriting 're' with 't'.Back to context...
2.
'I have' replaced by 'for having', with 'ng' written over 'I' and 'have' deleted.Back to context...
3.
A full stop replaced by semi-colon and dash.Back to context...
4.
'distance' replaces 'an' (part of an aborted word).Back to context...
5.
Comma written over full stop.Back to context...
6.
'My' began a new sentence, which is revised to form a continuing sentence.Back to context...
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