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 part of it to be ſold amongſt them, it would be deemed a ſubmiſſion to the aſſumed Omnipotence of the Great Madam.

N the arrival of the Water Gruel, the people of the new farm were again thrown into great alarms and confuſions. Some of them would not ſuffer the waggons to be unloaded at all, but ſent them immediately back to the Gruel merchants: others permitted the waggons to unload, but would not touch the hateful commodity; ſo that it lay neglected about their roads and highways until it grew ſour and ſpoiled. But one of the new ſettlers, whoſe name was Jack, either from a keener ſenſe of the injuries attempted againſt him, or from the neceſſity of his ſituation, which was ſuch that he could not ſend back the Gruel becauſe of a number of mercenaries whom his father had ſtationed before his houſe to watch and be a check upon his conduct: he, I ſay, being almoſt driven to diſpair, fell to work, and with great zeal ſtove to pieces the caſks of Gruel, which had been ſent him, and utterly demoliſhed, the whole cargoe.