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 had been there, for he loves wine and venion, and is reolved as long as he lives to be againt the government.

petition is then handed from town to town, and from houe to houe, and wherever it comes the inhabitants flock together, that they may ee that which mut be ent to the King. Names are eaily collected. One man igns becaue he hates the papits; another becaue he has vowed detruction to the turnpikes; one becaue it will vex the paron; another becaue he owes his landlord nothing; one becaue he is rich; another becaue he is poor; one to hew that he is not afraid, and another to hew that he can write.

paage, however, is not always mooth. Thoe who collect contributions to edition, ometimes apply to a man of higher rank and more enlightened mind, who intead of lending them his name, calmly