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My Brother was going, after Dinner, taking four or five
of his Officers, upon a day's Visit to a Pole's, who has
no Name, and who lives fifty or Sixty miles off,
I don't know where. His Merit is that hearing,
that since Prince Dashkoff had left us, I was in
want of a Bear to keep me Company, he had—
declared with great Vehemence, that he would
give Orders to his Huntsmen and Bears should be
forthcoming if any were to be found in Poland.

For all this I should have gone without my Bear,
had it not been for the Prince's Huntsman, who
with less Zeal, having had better success, brought
me three months ago, a beautiful young The name of a
Bear in Russ. Midwid
who to the great grief of his disconsolate Master,
and a numerous Tribe of Friends, died a few
days ago, of a wound he received in a Duel,
he had fought about a month before, with a Wolf
more bloody minded and obdurate than with whom Prince
Dashkoff had
been fighting Count Mellin.

Taking the Will however for the Deed, this merit
of the Pole was to be rewarded, in your Country way,
by turning in five or Six hungry Green-Coats
at a Time, to eat him out of house and home.

We were just rising from Dinner, when in came

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