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bloody minded and obdurate than <note>with whom<lb/> Prince Dashkoff<lb/> had been fighting</note> Count Mellin</p> | bloody minded and obdurate than <note>with whom<lb/> Prince Dashkoff<lb/> had been fighting</note> Count Mellin</p> | ||
<p>Taking the will however for the deed, for this merit | |||
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of the Pole was to be rewarded, in your Country way, | |||
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by turning in five or Six hungry Green Coats <del>at</del> | |||
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at a time to eat him out of house & home. <sic>we</sic> | |||
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were just rising from dinner, when in came a Man | |||
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from Count Soltikoff the Major General, telling us | |||
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that his Master was at Critchoff, where he proposed | |||
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to stop a night in his way from his Estate at Viasma | |||
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to Kromentchuck, where, they say, he is to command | |||
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under Hékin. The inteeligence changed, for the present, | |||
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the trip to the Poles, into a trip to Critchoff, whither | |||
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my Brother repaired forthwith, leaving me here | |||
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to write you a Line, upon the presumption that | |||
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Soltikoff may be the bearer of it the greatest part if <del>the way</del> | |||
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not the whole of the way. <sic>along</sic> with it, I suppose,</p> | |||
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great vehemence, that he would give orders to his Huntsman,
and Bears should be forth coming 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 Midoid, who to the great grief of his disconsolate
Master, and a numerous Tribe of Friends, died a
few days ago, of a wound he had got 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, for this merit
of the Pole was to be rewarded, in your Country way,
by turning in five or Six hungry Green Coats at
at a time to eat him out of house & home. we
were just rising from dinner, when in came a Man
from Count Soltikoff the Major General, telling us
that his Master was at Critchoff, where he proposed
to stop a night in his way from his Estate at Viasma
to Kromentchuck, where, they say, he is to command
under Hékin. The inteeligence changed, for the present,
the trip to the Poles, into a trip to Critchoff, whither
my Brother repaired forthwith, leaving me here
to write you a Line, upon the presumption that
Soltikoff may be the bearer of it the greatest part if the way
not the whole of the way. along with it, I suppose,
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