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name of her trade ; but it afterwards appeared 

 that she was one of those females who had given 

 in their names as being then labouring under 



4£ The pleasing punishment which women bear;" 



and who, in consequence, were discharged from 

 all severe labour. I then gave the graimdee and 

 the mothers a dollar each, and told them, that for 

 the future they might claim the same sum, in 

 addition to their usual allowance of clothes and pro- 

 visions, for every infant which should be brought 

 to the overseer alive and well on the fourteenth 

 day ; and I also gave each mother a present of a 

 scarlet girdle with a silver medal in the centre, 

 telling her always to wear it on feasts and holidays, 

 when it should entitle her to marks of peculiar 

 respect and attention, such as being one of the 

 first served, and receiving a larger portion than 

 the rest ; that the first fault which she might 

 commit, should be forgiven on the production of 

 this girdle \ and that when she should have any 

 favour to ask, she should always put it round her 

 waist, and be assured, that on seeing it, the over- 

 seer would allow the wearer to be entitled to 

 particular indulgence. On every additional child 

 an additional medal is to be affixed to the belt, 

 and precedence is to follow the greater number of 

 medals. I expected that this notion of an order 

 of honour would have been treated as completely 

 fanciful and romantic \ but to my great surprise, 



