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 to us, and therefore I may at any time demand from them ſuch part of their earnings as I pleaſe. At the ſame time ſhe was fully ſenſible of the promiſes and agreements her huſband had made when they left the old farm, and the tenor and purport of the great paper. She therefore thought it neceſſary to proceed with great caution and art, and endeavoured to gain her point by imperceptible ſteps.

order to this, ſhe firſt iſſued an edict ſetting forth, That whereas the tailors of her family were greatly injured by the people of the new farm, inaſmuch as they preſumed to make their own clothes whereby the ſaid tailors were deprived of the benefit of their cuſtom; it was therefore ordained that for the future the new ſettlers ſhould not be permitted to have amongſt them any ſhears or ſciſſars larger than a certain fixed ſize. In conſequence of this, our adventurers were compelled to have their clothes made by their father’s tailors: But out of regard to the old gentleman, they patiently ſubmitted to this grievance.

by this ſucceſs, ſhe proceeded in her plan. Obſerving that the new ſettlers, were very fond of a particular kind of cyder which they purchaſed of a