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the Purchase he made t'other at Stavodub, where
he bought Seventeen, including two mares which
would not disgrace Hyde Park, and which were it
not for their Sex would match extremely well with
a pair of very good Coach Geldings he bought of the
poor old disgraced Provotel. (Russ for Steward, vigt
the Prince Potemkin's Steward at Critchoff, he has another
above him at Debranka which is the principal Estate)

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 body would be at the trouble of administering
without exhibiting any sensible 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 tho' 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 and without any of his Master's Vanity

All this while, what is becomein the name of wonderment, what is
become of your dozen Mujik-Boys, (The Peasant Slaves
are called Mujicks or Moojicks which signifies literally
a Petty Householder,) who were to have been here in six

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