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Rh properly placed will fire a Houe; an angry Word is with you as that Spark, for you are both as touchy as Tinder, and very often make your own Houe too hot to hold you. To prevent this, therefore, and to live happily for the future, you mut olemnly agree, that if one peaks an angry Word, the other will not anwer, 'till he or he has ditinctly called over all the Letters in the Alphabet, and the other not reply, 'till he has told twenty; by this Means your Paions will be tifled, and Reaon will have Time to take the Role.

This is the bet Recipe that was ever given for a married Couple to live in Peace: Though John and his Wife frequently attempted to quarrel afterwards, they never could get their Paions to any coniderable Height, for