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land complain of being tired with preach- 

 ing : but I am sure this man must be so ; 

 for he worked like a blacksmith with his 

 hands and arms ; and with his head and 

 tongue, like an auctioneer selling razors and 

 cutlery- ware in a market, or a mountebank- 

 doctor on the stage. 



I have heard say there are three preach- 

 ers at this meeting-house, and they are paid 

 by subscription, which is an usual way of 

 satisfying the pastor in every other religious 

 society, I frequently saw this place on a 

 Sunday. It resembles an auction-room, 

 from their ministers doing duty nearly all 

 day, and very late at night. They sing a 

 great deal ; w^hich must be very proper, 

 to give the preacher time to recover his 

 breath : for I really think that Mendoza and 

 Humphreys, when they fought their hard- 

 contested battle at Doncaster, did not fa- 

 tigue themselves more ; nor could they, 

 except their condition gave them more 

 breath ; for, at every time the singing act 

 came on, the preacher panted and blew like 

 a race-horse when he comes in at a four- 



