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"of him and that he was a plague and an expence to them, They
"would care less and less what became of him. They "would neglect him every now and then: he would fall ill, and, when
"they found him in that plight, they would leave him to get out of
"it as he could. 'What is to be done with this fellow here' — one would
say — 'He is good for nothing? - I shan't trouble myself about him —
'do you go and look after him, if you will. — 'No not I' says another.
'Why am I to be plagued with him more than you?' and while
the point is debating, the wretch dies, and so settles the dispute.
"I don't know," continues my brother, "that there is any thing
"particularly savage in my disposition, more than in another man's;
"and yet I would not promise, but that, with a few more years over
"my head, and some of them spent in such a way of business, I might come
"to feel and reason in somewhat the same way. Old Cato's avowed
"maxim, you know, was, as soon as a slave became useless to turn
"him out to starve: a notable good manager, it must be confessed:
"and if one of your fine ancient worthies could be this cruel from
"principle, is there any thing so unnnatural in supposing, that a Jailer,
"in these degenerate days, might fall into the same track, through
negligence.2"
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