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Wednesday Night, Aug. 30 / It was lucky enough that our two servants met at Hannah's,359 which gave them so good an opportunity of exchanging their letters time enough for each to return to his master early in the day.
Thou dost well to boast of thy capacity for managing servants, and to set up for correcting our poets in their characters of this class of people,360 when, like a madman, thou canst beat their teeth out, and attempt to shoot them through the head, for not bringing to thee what they had no power to obtain.