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105 which the soap was set back to its original close state. Upon my being informed of a conduct so preposterous and stupid, I declined my intended visit next morning, and allowed this infatuated man to exercise the freedom of his own will. The consequence was, that the pan never afterwards could, by any expedient he possibly might contrive, be again brought to rights; he at last gave it up; and the spoiled stuff was, with his utensils, &c. afterwards sold by the Excise for arrears.

The unfortunate issue of this pan of soap, plainly demonstrates the serious effects of inexperience and ignorance in the knowledge of the original materials. For had this man allowed the salt leys to have been washed off his soap, and then given a boil of a weak caustic ley, his soap might have been finished with propriety, and turned