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Your Man, Maxim, turns out very well, and the Beatings
that were destined for his use, are all laid up in
Lavender, to be given to your Man Simeon, who
we understand, from the Doctor, has a Constitution
that will absorb them all, and as many more
as any lady would be at the trouble of
administering, without exhibiting any visible effect.
As to the Survivor of your unfortunate Pair,
Sam. feeling himself out of the reach of English
Laws, has looked into his mouth, in spight of
English Proverbs, and declares, that altho' there
are worse horses in the world, yet that the
principal merit he has, results from the
Consideration of his Master, and of his Master's
name, which he bears with great meekness, &
without any of his Master's Vanity
All this while, in the name of wonderment, what
is become of your dozen The Peasant Slaves are called Mujicks or
Moojicks which signify literally a Petty
Householder. Musick Boys, who were
to have been here in Six weeks from the latter
End of March, and of whom we have not seen nor
heard any thing now in the Middle of July. Madwinoff's
have been here, I dont know how long, these two or three
months; we have suffered cruelly & deplorably for the
want of your's, having cut out our work in expectation of them.
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