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upon the excellent choice he had displayed in their 

 selection. 



His labours for the day closed with this, and the 

 sun being nearly on the point of setting, the cotton 

 spinners laid aside their reels. The father of 

 Wallata Gabriel, Goodaloo, and Walder-Yoannes, 

 all came in from the market together, and fast or 

 no fast, young and old, on my proposal that they 

 should taste some of my home brewed ale, a large 

 gambo was broached, and soon disappeared, whilst 

 they certainly did confine themselves to a meal of 

 bread and cayenne ivort, in which, as usual, a fowl 

 had been boiled to rags, although Wallata Gabriel, 

 out of a tender regard for the conscience of her reli- 

 gious old father, had fished up the bones with a 

 spoon, that he might suppose its rich consistence 

 depended only upon a thickening of meal. 



