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fed them as my own, (there being no re- 

 gular pounds, as in England,) supposing 

 that the owners would readily pay me for 

 theix keep. But, on the contrary, they 

 threatened to replevin. I then went to 

 the justice of the peace again : he repeated 

 the old story — better to let them alone, 

 I found, however, there was an act of 

 assembly to prevent pigs being suffered to 

 range for five miles distance round Balti- 

 more : therefore, I had a legal right to 

 shoot them ; which I soon set about ; and 

 the next day I killed five large hogs near to 

 the road, where every one who passed saw 

 them. This made me better known than 

 ever. The people then told me to my 

 face, that I must mind myself, for if I shot 

 their hogs, they would shoot me, or some 

 of my ^ horses or cattle : and I had every 

 reason to believe they would : for a little 

 time before I went tjiere, there was a 

 Dutchman who lived half a mile from my 

 house, a very industrious farmer, who had 

 a dispute with a man of whom he had 



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