WHAT'S TO BE DONE WITH THE PARISH 'PRENTICES?

Poor little Jim, so short and slim,

A sweep alone, before, would take him;

But since the law's new sweeping clause,

The parish must a _grow-sir_ make him.

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Science under Divers forms.

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