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COMICAL NOTES AND SAYINGS

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upon hi» (hould'er, faying, Sir, are you Do£lor Pit» cairn :he Athieft ? Yes, faid he, turning about fudden'y. Very good, faid Mr. Pettegrew, I take you ali to witnefe, he has confefled it himfelf. The doctor flood as one demented, then faid, O Pettegrew, ihy fculi is as deep as hell. A wow, man, faid Mr. i Pettegrew, hi ft thou won to the belief that there is, ’a VdK His two advocates feeing all confounded Iby what he had faid, raged on him like two madmen, ' then advifed him to an agreement with the minif$ ter.

> One time, in his feflion, he had a young woman J before him for getting a baftard. He alked her as “ follows: And where was that wain gotten now, ray ^MaAii’s-feire, (fhis.Maul’s-mire was a miry wet place j_cf grpisn 1 in the fiel.d, where nothing but graf* grew^) ^ Maul 3 mi/t, faid Mr. Poltegrew, and a dirty hole it is, ^wCtr.an, for 1 lair’d my horfe ae night in it. O fyf Maid one of t»he eiders, Mr Pettegrew, that’s baudy, 'he thinking it was my a—He hole the lafs had faid. ?Dear man, f|jd Mr Pettegrew, does thou think that would ridefthefe aw'a’ faddled and bridled, and Wholes anew at hame “his feffioh, concerning a young lady and a gentletaan, who had been in the fair way to fornication ; Sthe witnefs fwrae, diat they faw the man’s hand be^tweej; the woman’s thighs, and her hand in the balf^.p of his breeches. To which Mr. Pettegrew faid ’Av. ay, the ce’ifhas keen in that man’s breeks, and Hdl has been between that woman’s feet, when the '111.-was between them : and think ye that the de’il d uVbMe lang cut o’ hell? Na, na, I’ll warrant ii ; f r ti de words, the lady would have a mends of I 'r P ttegrew ; fo next Sabbath his lecture ied ; hir. .k ibmerhing of a whdrifti woman, hefirft ;
 * lady ? Indeed, Sir, it was gotten at the check of
 * : There happened another moft terrible debate in
 * r to a city, then to a fhip, and wheifi fwe,.

he Htr’ lah v, was coming to the church, he was fay vhen iai? gets up her. .fails, fixe fkips; o’er'tbs, ^