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kimfittable to eat, being as how they live upon board, and having
nothing but a piss of could cuddling tart and some blamangey, I
was tuck with the cullick, and a murcy it was that mistress had her
viol of assings in the cox.
But, as I was saying, I think for sartain this match will go fore-
wood; for things are come to a creesus; and I have seen with my
own hays, such smuggling—But I scorn for to exclose the secrets
of the family; and if it wance comes to marrying, who nose but the
frolick may go round—I believes as how, Miss Liddy would have
no reversion if her swan would appear; and you would be surprised,
Molly, to receive a bride’s fever from your humble sarvant—but
this is all suppository, dear girl; and I have sullenly promised to
Mr. Clinker, that neither man, woman, nor child, shall no that
arrow said a civil thing to me in the way of infection—I hopes to
drink your health at Brambleton-hall, in a horn of October, before
the month be out—Pray let my bed be turned once a-day, and the
windore opened, while the weather is dry; and burn a few billets
with some brush in the footman’s garret, and see their mattrash
be dry as a bone; for both our gentlemen have got a sad could
by lying in damp shits at sir Tummas Ballfart’s. No more at
present, but my sarvice to Saul and the rest of our fellow-sarvents,
being,
Dear Mary Jones,
always yours,
Oct. 4. WIN. JENKINS
To Miss LÆTITIA WILLIS, at Gloucester
MY DEAR LETTY,
THIS method of writing to you from time to time, without any
hopes of an answer, affords me, I own, some ease and satisfaction
in the midst of my disquiet, as it in some degree lightens the burthen
of affliction; but it is at best a very imperfect enjoyment of friend-
ship, because it admits of no return of confidence and good
counsel—I would give the whole world to have your company for
a single day—I am heartily tired of this itinerant way of life—I am
quite dizzy with a perpetual succession of objects—Besides it is