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to raise said children properly, and a man of undoubted character, which the children will be much better provided for by continuing with him, than they would, to be turned over to that man Hays, soon to be thrown on the cold charities of the world, for their support.

Mr Moore is a gentleman in every sense of the word and of course has some family attachment for these children, which would cause him to feel a deeper interest in their welfare, than he would in those that he has not raised, so I think it would be an act of injustice to the children as well as to Mr Moore, to allow