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kind of recreation that may suit your

fancy. But the best proof you can give of believing your preacher, is by shewing your respect. There is to be a collection this evening, a word to the wise; after the collection I shall solve cases of conscience at eight o'clock till ten, when we meet at the love-lectures; for I am the man to shew you the way to salvation, as sure as I stand here." At this instant the preacher, leaning too far forward, slipped his foot from the edge of the tub, and came to the ground; and some prophane scoffers having set up a laugh, the saint, in his passion, forgot his piety, and d——d them for a parcel of scoundrels. "I see you very well, and if I could find out which it is, I would darken his daylights for him." A very stout fellow, who conceived the preacher's looks directed to him, came forward and said, with much indignation; "thee

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