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9. Same weather. Took leave, I fear for 

 ever, of my old and kind friend, James 

 Paul. His brother and son promise to 

 come and see me here. I have pledged 

 myself to transplant 10 acres of Indian 

 Corn ; and, if! write, in August, and say 

 that it is good, Thomas Paul has promis- 

 ed that he will come ; for, he thinks that 

 the scheme is a mad one. 

 10. Same weather. — Mr. Varee, a son-in-law 

 of Mr James Paul, brought me yester- 

 day^ to another son-in-law's, Mr. Ezra 

 TowxsHEND at BiEERY. Hcrc I am 

 amongst the thick of the Quakers, whose 

 houses and families pleased me so much 

 formerly, and which pleasure is all now 

 revived. Here all is ease, plenty, and 

 cheerfulness. These people are never 

 giggling and never in low spirits. Their 

 minds, like their dress, are simple and 

 strong. Their kindness is shown more 

 in acts than in words. Let others say 

 what they will, I have uniformly found 

 those whom I have intimately known of 

 this sect, sincere and upright men ; and, 

 I verily believe, that all those charges of 

 hypocrisy and craft that we hear against 

 Quakers arise from a feeling of e7ivy ; en- 

 vy inspired by seeing them possessed of 

 Such abundance of all those things, which 

 are the fair fruits of care, industry, eco- 

 nomy, sobriety, and order, and which are 

 justly forbidden to the drunkard, the 

 glutton, the prodigal and the lazy. As 

 the day of my coming to Mr. Town- 

 shend's had been announced before- 

 hand, several of the young men, who 

 were babies when I used to be there for- 

 merly, came to see '• Billy Cobbett," 

 of whom they had heard and read go 



