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 long. The new overſeer took the firſt opportunity of ſhewing that he had no intentions of living in harmony and friendſhip with the family. Some of Jack’s domeſticks had put on their Sunday clothes, and attended the overſeer in the great parlour, in order to pay him their compliments on his arrival, and to requeſt his aſſiſtance in reconciling them to their father: but he rudely ſtopped them ſhort in the midſt of their ſpeech; called them a parcel of diſobedient ſcoundrels, and bid them go about their buſineſs. So ſaying, he turned upon his heel, and with great contempt left the room.

OW Jack and his family finding themſelves oppreſſed, inſulted, and tyranniſed over in the moſt cruel and arbitrary manner, adviſed with their brethren what meaſures ſhould be adopted to relieve them from their intolerable grievances. Their brethren, one and all, united in ſympathiſing with their afflictions; they adviſed them to bear their ſufferings with fortitude for a time, aſſuring them that they looked on the puniſhments and inſults laid upon