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 from his Face decended five Streams of Blood, denoting the Number of Claws with which Nature had unhappily armed the Enemy.

Mr. Partridge acted for ome Time on the defenive only; indeed he attempted only to guard his Face with his Hands; but as he found that his Antagonit abated nothing of her Rage, he thought he might, at leat, endeavour to diarm her, or rather to confine her Arms; in doing which, her Cap fell off in the Struggle, and her Hair being too hort to reach her Shoulders, erected itelf on her Head; her Stays likewie, which were laced through one ingle Hole at the Bottom, burt open, and her Breats, which were much more redundant than her Hair, hung down below her Middle; her Face was likewie marked with the Blood of her Huband; her Teeth gnahed with Rage; and Fire, uch as parkles from a Smith’s Forge, darted from her Eyes. So that, altogether, this Amazonian Heroine might have been an Object of Terror to a much bolder Man than Mr. Partridge.

He had, at length, the good Fortune, by getting Poeion of her Arms, to render thoe Weapons, which he wore at the Ends of her Fingers, ueles; which he no