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 folks, she became fond of dumb animals, which were her chief companions; and of these she always had numbers; people, indeed, have said hundreds, and others have declared she could call as many enon [sic] the earth as shoshe [sic] pleased; but this is fabulous, for I never saw more than ten at a time. Dogs and cats were the principal companions of her retirement, which, being of the smallest breed, would, as she sat, creep from different parts of her garments, and not a little surprisosurprise [sic] those that came to see her, and, indeed, frightened many; though, to do her justice, she desired her visitors not to be terrified at her domestics, as she termed them, for they were not like many that attended on the gentry, saucy, imperieusimperious [sic], and unfaithful, but were always attendant on the will of her whose hand fed them, nor would injure without provocation, a lesson, she used to say, she wished was learned by all mankind.

Of a pipe of tobacco our Bridget was cxceedinglyexceedingly [sic] fond, and, indeed, was continually whiffing; and as she indeed, humourously used to observe, she had "sent more puffs into the world, than all the quacks in the kingdom;" from a long contracted habit, likewise, when shoshe [sic] was smoking, of ever being seated so that her knees almost touched her visage, her limbs became so contracted, that when she became in years, shoshe [sic] was almost double, which, together with her enormous length of nose and chin, her pipe and the number of animals about her, made her cut a most hideous figure, and appear rather uncommonly terrifying to those who were not apprised of it.