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 Wetern’s Manor? Did not I tell you many a good Year ago what would come of it? but you would have your own headtrong Ways; yes, you would, you Villain—’

Black George was, in the main, a peaceable kind of Fellow, and nothing choleric, nor rah, yet he did bear about him omething of what the Antients called the Iracible, and which his Wife, if he had been endowed with much Widom, would have feared. He had long experienced, that when the Storm grew very high Arguments were but Wind, which erved rather to increae than to abate it. He was therefore eldom unprovided with a mall Switch, a Remedy of wonderful Force, as he had often eayed, and which the Word Villain erved as a Hint for his applying.

No ooner, therefore, had this Symptom appeared, than he had immediate Recoure to the aid Remedy, which though, as it is uual in all very efficacious Medicines, it at firt eemed to heighten and inflame the Dieae, oon produced a total calm, and retored the Patient to perfect Eae and Tranquility.