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22 contains; if thee, and thy brother officer will give me thy company for one half hour, only to drink a bowl of this rum, made into what they call punch, this purſe and all its contents ſhall be thine, as ſoon as the bowl is out; ſo conſider as thou thinkeſt pro- per: If thou ordered me to fill the bowl, ſhall know what thou mean- eſt, and will not only immediately obey thee, but will alſo fully make good my word. The officer here gave him a node of underſtanding, and im- mediately communicated this propo- ſal to his trudy companion; and, af- ter ſome private confabulation, they agreed to the captain’s propoſal; and the former of theſe two, gave him as he had hinted, a ſignal for the bowl; which was compounded in a minute, As ſoon as this was ordered, the Qua- ker gave his inſtructions to his mate accordingly, ,and a boat was preſent- ly hauled up cloſe a-ſtern, and was put off again for ſhore, before the bowl was near conſumed.

Now our honeſt friend, Obadiah Mouſetrap, being informed by his