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stance, which I took up, and found it was 

 loaded. I then told him, that if he did 

 not come down immediately, I would fire at 

 him. Accordingly he descended : and I 

 discharged the piece. When he came to 

 receive his gun, I seized him by the collar, 

 and beat him in the same manner as I 

 should an English spaniel dog. The fel- 

 low attempted to resist ; but he soon began 

 to cry out for mercy. I still kept laying 

 on, until he was glad to beg pardon. I 

 then led him some distance to where 

 the gun lay, which I told him he might 

 take, if he would walk away quietly, first 

 taking from him all the fruit he had got. 

 This circumstance occurring near to the 

 public highway, and there being many 

 beholders of the transaction, it was soon 

 circulated in the neighbourhood : however, 

 the visitors to the orchard did not quite 

 desist from their usual depredations : npne 

 came but such as were nimble, chiefly negroes, 

 and they kept a strict eye, and, when they 

 saw me coming, would run away laughing. 

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