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painter's skill, and consider the portrait as a strik- 

 ing resemblance; for there is a very blue coat with 

 very yellow buttons, and white gaiters and trow- 

 sers, and an eye-glass so big and so blue, that it 

 looks as if I had hung a pewter plate about my 

 neck; and a bunch of watch-seals larger than those 

 with which Pope has decorated Belinda's great 

 great grandsire. John Fuller (to whom, jointly 

 with Nicholas, the charge of this inestimable trea- 

 sure is to be entrusted) could not find words to 

 express his satisfaction at the performance. "Dere 

 massa coat ! and dere him chair him sit in ! and 

 dere massa seals, all just de very same ting! just 

 all as one ! And oh ! ki ! dere massa pye-glass !" 

 In the midst of his raptures he dropped the pic- 

 ture, and fractured the frame-glass. His despair 

 now equalled his former joy; — " Oh, now what for 

 him do ? Such a pity ! Just to break it after it 

 was all done so well ! All so pretty ! " However, 

 we stuck the broken glass together with wafers, 

 and he carried it off, assuring me, " that when 

 massa gone, he should talk to it every morning, 

 all one as if massa still here." Indeed, this " talk- 

 ing to massa" is a favourite amusement among the 

 negroes, and extremely inconvenient: they come 

 to me perpetually with complaints so frivolous, 

 and requests so unreasonable, that I am persuaded 

 they invent them only to have an excuse for 

 " talk to massa ;" and when I have given them a 

 plump refusal, they go away perfectly satisfied, 



