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If I am no longer respected, what word scratched out I am doing will not make our people the less respected, either by themselves or others; and so I shall go on & so you may tell our people. Turtle Fields said no more to him.

      When George Gist had settled his alphabet to his mind, he made several copies of it, & words scratched out  sent for some of his neighbors and gave them the copies & taught them how to use the alphabet; so that shortly it got about and several persons found that they could words scratched out form words & note them down, word scratched out & read them off again; but they did it very slowly, as if counting or spelling, than as if they were words scratched out reading. Among