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Tiving at a ferry belonging to General 

 Washington, he offered the ferryman a 

 moidore. The man said, " I cannot take 

 it." The General asked, " Why, John ?" 

 He replied, *' I am only a servant to Gene- 

 ral Washington ; and I have no w^cights to 

 weigh it with : and the General will weigh 

 it ; and if it should not be weight, he will 

 not only make me the loser, but he will 

 be angry with me." — " Well, John, you 

 must take it ; and I will lose three pence 

 in its value:" the ferryman did so; and he 

 carried it to General Washington on the 

 Saturday night following. The General 

 weighed it ; and it was not weight : it 

 wanted three half-pence : General Wash- 

 ington carefully lapped up the three half- 

 pence in a piece of paper, and directed it 

 to General Stone, which he received from 

 the ferryman, on his return. General 

 Stone told me another of his regularities, 

 that, during the time he was engaged in 

 the army in the America war, and from 

 home, he had a plasterer from Baltimore, 



