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dollars. The sum being so small, I made 

 him an offer of it : this he accepted, say- 

 ing, I must call on him the next day, and 

 he would repay the money. He then 

 owed me thirty dollars besides for a pig. 

 Some little time after I dined with him, and 

 wanted to send two hundred dollars to Phi- 

 ladelphia. Seeing reason to think I should 

 have evidence that the money was safely 

 transmitted, I wrote a letter, putting one 

 hundred and fifty dollars into his hands, 

 requesting, as a proof of friendship, that 

 he would add the fifty dollars he stood in- 

 debted to me, enclose the whole sum in the 

 letter, and then put them into the post- 

 office. I saw him the next day : he told 

 me he had conformed to my directions, 

 and remarked the number of the banker's 

 notes, &c. Never doubting but this was 

 true, I went to Philadelphia fourteen days 

 after, and found that my correspondent had 

 received only one hundred dollars : the 

 attorney had withheld the remainder.— 

 Much amazed at this, I repeatedly wrote to 



