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wife on the estate, he keeps one at the Bay, so that 

 his children will not belong to me. Phillis, too, 

 who formerly lived with John, says, that she parted 

 with him, because he threw away all his money upon 

 the Bay girls ; though John asserts that the cause 

 of separation was his catching the false Phillis 

 coming out of one of the book-keepers' bedrooms. 



However, it is certain, that now his connections 

 are all at the Bay ; and I have assured him, that 

 if he does not provide himself with a wife at 

 Cornwall, before my return from Kingston, I will 

 put him up to auction, and call the girls together 

 to bid for him, one offering half a dozen yams, 

 and another a bit of salt fish ; and the highest 

 bidder shall carry him off as her property. But 

 to-day, as he came into the room just as the minis- 

 ter left it, I told him that Dr. Pope was coming 

 to give the negroes some instruction; and that 

 he had left part of a catechism for him, which he 

 was to get by heart against his next visit. John 

 promised to study it diligently, and went off to 

 get it read to him by one of the book-keepers. 

 Several of his companions came to hear it from 

 curiosity, and the book-keeper read aloud : — 



" John Fuller is gone to the Bay, boys, 

 On the girls to spend his cash ; 

 And when John Fuller comes home, boys, 

 John Fuller deserves the lash." 



So John went away shaking his head, and saying, 

 " Massa had told him, that the minister had left 



