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are compelled to pay a heavy tax, which is not 

 paid by us for that same glass. It is the same 

 as to almost every thing that comes from Eng 

 land. You are compelled to pay the Borough- 

 mongers a heavy tax on your candles and soap. 

 You dare not make candles and soap, though 

 you have the fat and the ashes in abundance, [f 

 you attempt to do this, you are taken up and 

 imprisoned; and, if you resist, soldiers are 

 brought to shoot you. This is freedom, is it? 

 Now, we, here, make our own candles and 

 soap. Fanners sometimes sell soap and can 

 dles ; but they never buy any. A labouring 

 man, or a mechanic, buys a sheep now and 

 then. Three or four days' works will buy a 

 labourer a sheep to weigh sixty pounds, with 

 seven or eight pounds of loose fat. The meat 

 keeps* very well, in winter, for a long time. 

 The wool makes stockings. And the loose fat 

 is made into candles and soap. The year be 

 fore I left Hampshire, a poor woman at Holly 

 Hill had dipped some rushes in grease to use 

 instead of candles. An Exciseman found it 

 out ; went and ransacked her house ; and told 

 her, that, if the rushes had had another dip, 

 they would have been candles, and she must 

 have gone to jail ! Why, my friends, if such a 

 thing were told here, nobody would believe it. 

 The Americans could not bring their minds to 



