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ESIDES Grief for her Mater, there was another Source for that briny Stream which o plentifully roe above the two mountainous Cheek Bones of the Houekeeper. She was no ooner retired, than he began to mutter to herelf in the following pleaant Strain. ‘Sure Mater might have made ome Difference, methinks, between me and the other Servants. I uppoe he hath left me Mourning; but, i-fackins! if that be all, the Devil hall wear it for him for me. I’d have his Worhip know I am no Beggar. I have aved five hundred Pound in his Service, and after all to be ued in this Manner. It is a fine Encouragement to Servants to be honet; and to be ure, if I have taken a little Something now and then, others have taken ten times as much; and now we are all put in a Lump together. If o be that it be o, the Legacy may go to the Devil with