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Written upside down across the top: Am glad your pickles are good & all that and that you are able to work but am sorry and afraid you do too much of it - be "kerful" I tell you

comes I should like to have you Send me the loan of "Cowpers Works" also purchase and send me a Small Testament such as the Bible Nedlar had when you were here with binding like Mothers Testament & Psalms The price of which I suppose at Durens Depository would be one dime 24 Can you get no redress on measure of ashes from the Seller? Care should be exercis'd in dealing with quaker a member of that shrewd Sect had a Vessel at sea which was wrecked, on hearing of its loss he immediately wrote as follows to a Broker with whom he had previously had some indefinite conversation about insuring it "Friend - if thou hast not filled up the policy I spake to thee of, thou needest not, as I have heard from the Vessel" The Broker catching at the chance of securing a premium without a risk immediately filled out the policy and Sent it to the quaker Saying that he had completed it before receiving the letter. The next morning he read the loss of the vessel in his Newspaper A preventive to the visits of Charles Harlow I am unable to p? It is said that a young lady of Milo once arrested the visits of Wm Carver Esq by the adroit and timely presentation of a Slice of bread & butter it hath moreover been often remarkd by not naturalists that a period may be put to the infestment of various animals by the dexterous affusion of them with heated water whether either of these remedies however are potent to relieve your difficulty I am unable to predict