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Mr. James Spiller Comedian. 11 ccount, I can fit any where.-D-n the fellow! ſays another of them, what does he mean? Turn him out of the room!-The ſervants being all buſy at his firſt coming into the room, placing the dishes on the table, and putting things to rights, had not obſerved his coming in before; but now hearing the gentlemen diſpute, they ſoon found the cauſe of it, and thereupon ſaid one of them, Lord, gentlemen! you will get no ſatisfaction by ſwearing and quarreling with him; for he is ſo deaf, that you may fire a cannon at his ear, and he will not hear you. He has been in the kitchen this hour, but nobody can make him underſtand a word that any body ſays to him. They have been ready to knock out his brains ſeveral times, but he never underſtood them in the leaſt; he is a poor ſimple honeſt fellow, I dare ſay, but what has brought him here, the Lord knows; or how you will get him down again, the Lord knows. -Well, well cried one of them, what does it ſignify! 'Tis better to let him ſtay here, now he is here; he looks like an inoffenſive gentleman, and as